3.0.0 1693 2023-01-11T13:17:59Z 2023-01-11T13:17:59Z Senate S S 2009-09-22 111 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-09-22T20:48:54Z School Meal Safety and Standards Act 111 4590 HR 2010-02-23 Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Related bill CRS 2009-09-22 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2009-09-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. N Education Administrative law and regulatory procedures Department of Agriculture Elementary and secondary education Food supply, safety, and labeling Government information and archives Poverty and welfare assistance Education 00 2009-09-22 Introduced in Senate 2009-10-09T21:57:35Z Safe Food for Schools Act of 2009 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) develop guidelines for determining when it is appropriate to institute an administrative hold on suspect commodities and products being used in school meal programs; (2) work with states to increase their timeliness in notifying schools of food recalls; (3) improve the timeliness and completeness of direct communication with schools about holds and recalls; (4) establish a timeframe for improving commodity hold and recall procedures so that they address the role of processors and distributors, thereby facilitating the provision of more timely and complete information to schools; (5) revise procedures to provide states with more specific instructions for schools about how to dispose of recalled commodities and products and obtain timely reimbursement; and (6) institute a systematic quality check procedure to ensure that holds on commodities and products used by schools are carried out effectively.

Directs the Secretary, within one year of this Act's enactment, to revise the procedures of the Food Safety and Inspection Service to ensure that schools are included in recall effectiveness checks.

]]> Safe Food for Schools Act of 2009 Display Title Safe Food for Schools Act of 2009 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to ensure the safety of school meals by enhancing coordination with States and schools operating school meal programs in the case of a recall of contaminated food. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Safe Food for Schools Act of 2009 Introduced in Senate 2009-09-22T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s1693is/xml/BILLS-111s1693is.xml 2009-09-22 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.