The senate committee recently favored a bill to make school meals tastier and appealing to children.
Fox 25 reported the Senate Agriculture Committee approved a bill on Wednesday intended to soften the Obama administration's healthier school meal rules. The legislation was introduced by Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas and Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan following an arrangement to ease requirements for whole grains and defer the deadline to cut sodium levels.
The bill is designed to comfort schools that have complained the firm rules on school meals set by Obama administration, ABC wrote on their site. Roberts and Stabenow arranged the requirements for whole grains and delay the deadline to cut sodium levels in the children's meal.
As the source held, the School Nutrition Association supported the agreement as they have been in the lead to urge the administration to scale backed the requirements. First Lady Michelle Obama has stressed the standards as part of her campaign against childhood obesity.
The rules set fat, sugar and sodium restrictions on foods in the lunch line. They also require more whole grains, fruits and vegetables. Schools have long been mandated to go along the government nutrition rules, as conveyed by Yahoo News.
After the vote, Roberts and Stabenow were talking to Senate leaders and House members to pass the bill. The bill would instruct the Agriculture Department to amend the whole grain and sodium standards within 90 days upon the enactment of the new law.
The department will write rules that cut back the 80 percent whole grain standards to require the lunch line must be whole grain rich, or more than half whole grain. The agreement will also delay the stricter standards on sodium that supposed to be scheduled on 2017 but would take effect on 2019 due to the new agreement, the news site added.
The legislation recently submitted will make school meals become more appetizing for school children.
