National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program sodium limits and timeline
USDA Foods in Schools nourishes children and supports American agriculture nationwide.
This new rule establishes standards for milk, whole grains, and sodium for school years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 to give schools time to transition in the short term.
The tip sheet provides a list of suggested practices that program operators may adopt to assist with proper meal counting and claiming when meals are served in alternative locations.
This one-page factsheet highlights the nutrition benefits of USDA Foods contained in the CSFP food package.
Estimated amount of funding USDA provided to school districts to support pandemic operations and supply chain challenges.
USDA Efforts to Reduce Waste, Fraud and Abuse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
The sale or exchange of SNAP benefits for anything other than food sold by an authorized retailer is illegal – and is neither accepted nor tolerated by USDA.
All data is from FNS-667 reports on file as of March 8, 2011