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House Education committee adopts H3 substitute shifting school food ingredient vetting to distributors, delays start date
Summary
At a meeting of the House Education and Workforce Committee, members adopted an H3 substitute for House Bill 4369 that shifts responsibility for vetting ingredients in school food from schools to food distributors, delays the bill’s start date to July 1, 2028, and removes titanium dioxide from the list of addressed ingredients, Representative Paquette, the bill sponsor, said.
At a meeting of the House Education and Workforce Committee, members adopted an H3 substitute for House Bill 4369 that shifts responsibility for vetting ingredients in school food from schools to food distributors, delays the bill’s start date to July 1, 2028, and removes titanium dioxide from the list of addressed ingredients, Representative Paquette, the bill sponsor, said.
The changes, Paquette said, came after committee feedback and expert consultation intended to strengthen the legislation. “The first, having the…
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