Still time to submit comments to FDA on percent daily value for added sugars
While the deadline to submit comments on the FDA proposed rule on the percent Daily Value for added sugars was Oct 13, it looks to still be open for comments due to technical difficulties that prevented some comments from being submitted.
Please go
here to submit comments.
Sign-on letters
- Trust for America's Health (TFAH) is circulating an organizational sign-on
letter to the President supporting a balanced approach to sequestration relief which maintains full funding for the Prevention and Public Health Fund. TFAH is seeking signatures from senior organizational leaders.
- SHAPE America is circulating an organizational sign-on letter asking that the Senate’s Every Child Achieves Act provisions that include health and physical education as core subjects and the reauthorization
of the Carol M. White PEP grant remain in the conferenced bill. See the letter
here and you can sign on
here. The deadline to sign on is today, Monday, October 19th at 5:00 PM ET.
New video from American Heart Association
The American Heart Association has released a new
healthy school meals animated video. You can also download the video
here if you would like to post it. Below are some model social media from AHA:
Facebook:
- If you have kids in school, you already know: that test won’t take itself. That’s why we’re urging lawmakers to #KeepSchoolFoodHealthy [post video natively to FB]
- School meals are healthier than ever! Watch then share this video with everyone you know who cares about giving our kids the healthy future they deserve. #Back2Healthy #HealthierNextGen [post video natively
to FB]
Twitter:
Colin Schwartz
Senior Nutrition Policy Associate
Center for Science in the Public Interest
1220 L Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20005
202-777-8387
www.cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy