Full Committee Hearing: "Challenges and Opportunities for Improving School Nutrition"

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

The Committee held a hearing to examine how to improve nutrition and food safety in the nation’s schools. Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered the largest recall of meat in the nation’s history after investigations revealed that meat from non-ambulatory (or "downer") cows at a California slaughterhouse had been allowed to enter the food supply. More than a third of the tainted meat had gone to federal nutrition programs, including to schools.

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Chairman Miller's Opening Statement »

Witness Testimony:

Kathleen Corrigan »
Director
Food and Nutrition Services
Mt. Diablo Unified School District
Concord, California

Kenneth Hecht »
Executive Director
California Food Policy Advocates
San Francisco, California

Mary Hill »
President
School Nutrition Association
Jackson, Mississippi

Kate Houston »
Deputy Under Secretary
Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Washington D.C.

Penny Parham »
Administrative Director
Department of Food & Nutrition
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Miami, Florida

Dora Rivas »
Executive Director
Food and Child Nutrition Services
Dallas Independent School District
Dallas, Texas

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