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Senate Agriculture Committee advances Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, adds school food-allergy training
Summary
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on a voice vote ordered S.222, the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, reported favorably after adopting a bipartisan manager’s amendment and a Durbin amendment that adds annual food-allergy training for school food-service personnel.
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Bozeman called to order a business meeting to consider S.222, the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, and the committee ordered the bill reported favorably as amended.
The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, sponsors said, would provide schoolchildren a greater variety of milk options in the National School Lunch Program. The chairman noted the bill was introduced by Senators Roger Marshall and Peter Welch and has bipartisan co-sponsors listed in the record. The House passed the prior version of the legislation during the…
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