The U.S. Department of Agriculture will publish a proposed rule maintaining flexibility in USDA child nutrition program meal requirements related to milk, grains, and sodium. The USDA also recently issued a separate rule as an administrative step to ensure the department’s procedural compliance with a court ruling regarding its 2018 final rule on child nutrition program flexibilities.  Despite this procedural formality, schools do not have to change their meals, thanks to the meal pattern flexibilities USDA has already provided in all child nutrition programs through June 30, 2021, in response to the COVID-19 national emergency.

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Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, November 24, 2020.