Lets schools in the federal lunch program serve whole and reduced-fat milk

§1What it does

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This bill would let schools in the National School Lunch Program offer students whole, reduced-fat, low-fat and fat-free milk, flavored or unflavored, instead of only the fat-free or low-fat milk that federal rules required at the time.^2,3 The Agriculture Department could not bar schools from offering any of these options, and the fat in milk would not count toward the program's limit on saturated fat in school meals.³ Amendments adopted on the House floor specified that the milk may be organic or not and barred participating schools from buying or serving milk produced by companies owned by the Chinese government.³

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§3How Congress voted

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