Rollbacks to school meal nutrition threatening health: Public health regulations under fire

On May 1, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced that USDA would relax school nutrition requirements related to whole grains, sodium and milk. Under the new rules, schools are only required to make 50 percent of their grain products whole-grain rich, as opposed to 100 percent, for the 2017-18 school year; schools are exempt from achieving the highest sodium targets from school years 2017-18 through 2020; and schools are allowed to serve flavored 1 percent milk.
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