Adelanto ESD
Administrative Regulation
AR 3550
Business and Noninstructional Operations

Food Service/Child Nutrition Program
The district, in compliance with California SB 677 – The California Childhood Obesity Prevention Act of 2003, adopts Nutrition standards for all food and beverages sold to students. Pursuant to Education Code 49432, the following shall be posted as the district’s policy and regulation on nutrition in public view within all school cafeterias or in other central eating areas.

A minimum of 50% of the food sold by the district on school grounds during regular school hours shall be from the list of nutritious foods provided in Education Code 49431.

The district:

1. Bans the sale of unhealthy beverages all day.

2. Permits the sale of healthy beverages which include only water, milk, 100% fruit juices or fruit based drinks with no less than 50% fruit juice and no added sweeteners. Vending machines may be used to sell only healthy beverages.

3. Allows the sale of unhealthy beverages for fundraising under two circumstances:

a. Sale by students off school grounds

b. Sale by students on school grounds at least 30 minutes after the end of the school day.

The only food that may be sold to students during breakfast and lunch periods is food that is sold as a full meal. However, fruits, non-fried vegetables, legumes, beverages, dairy products or grain products may be sold as individual food items if:

1. Not more than 35% of the total calories of the food item, excluding nuts or seeds, are from fat.

2. Not more than 10% of the food item’s total calories are form saturated fat.

3. Not more than 35% of the total weight of the food item, excluding fruits or vegetables, is composed of sugar.

Any individual food item sold to students during morning or after noon breaks shall meet the standards in item #1-3 above.

Beverages

Beginning July 1, 2004, the following nutritional standards shall apply to all beverages provided in the district’s food services program:

1. Regardless of the time of day, the only beverages that may be sold to elementary students are water, milk, 100% fruit juices, or fruit based drinks that are composed of no less than 50% fruit juice and that have no added sweeteners.

2. The only beverages that may be sold to middle school student from one-half hour before the start of the school day until after the end of the last lunch period are:

a. Fruit based drinks that are composed of no less than 50% fruit juice and that have no added sweeteners

b. Drinking water

c. Milk, including but not limited to chocolate milk, soy milk, rice milk and other similar dairy or nondairy milk

d. An electrolyte replacement beverage that contains no more than 42 grams of added sweetener per 20-ounce serving.

The district’s participates in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program pursuant to 42 USC 1757 and 1773. Meals shall meet the Nutritional standards, as well as the nutrient and calorie levels for students of each age or grade group, required by 7 CFR 210.10 and 220.8

The district National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs are “offer vs. Serve”. Students in all grades may decline a maximum of two menu items at lunch, provided they accept the entrée, and may decline one menu item at breakfast.

Other Food Sales

Districts participating in the National School Lunch and Breakfast Program are mandated to establish rules and regulations to control the sale of food in competition with the breakfast and lunch programs (7 CFR 210.11 and 220.12). 5 CCR 15500 and 15501 require the Board or designee to approve the sale of food items by student organizations.

Any food sales conducted outside of the district’s food services program shall meet nutritional standards specified in law, Board policy and administrative regulations and shall not impair student participation in the district’s food service program.

Food sales are prohibited during school hours, and within one hour before or after school hours, unless the organization is legally organized as a nonpartisan, charitable organization, the purpose of the solicitation is nonpartisan and charitable, and the solicitation has been approved in accordance with Board policy. (Education Code 514520)

A minimum of 50% of the food sold by any entity on school grounds during regular school hours shall be from the list of nutritious foods provided in Education Code 49431. An district site may permit the sale of food items that do not meet the standards of Education Code 49431 only if the items are sold by students of the school and the sale of food items takes place off school premises or takes place at least one-half hour after the end of the school day.

Beginning July 1, 2004, the sale of beverages shall comply with the nutritional standards of Education Code 49431.5, except that sales not meeting these standards may be permitted for a school fundraising event conducted by students at an elementary school when the sale of beverages takes place off school premises or takes place at least one-half hour after the end of the day.

The sale of foods during the meal periods in food service areas shall be allowed only if all income from the sale, including the sale of approved foods or drinks from vending machines accrues to the benefit of the school, the school food service program, or the student organization(s) sponsoring the sale. (7 CFR 210.11; 220.12)

No foods of minimal nutritional value, as listed in 7 CFR 210, Appendix B, and 7 CFR 220, Appendix B, shall be sold in food service areas during breakfast and lunch periods. (7 CFR 210.11, 220.12)

The Superintendent or designee shall not permit the sale of food by student organizations in a school with any of grades K-8 that is participating in the National School Breakfast or Lunch Program, except when all of the following conditions are met: (5 CCR 1550)

1. The student organization may sell one food item per sale.

2. The specific nutritious food item is approved by the Superintendent or designee.

3. The food sales do not begin until after the close of the regularly scheduled midday food service period.

4. The sales during the regular school day are not of food items prepared on the premises.

5. There are no more than four such sales per year per school.

6. The food sold is a dessert-type food, such as pastry, ice cream or fruit.

7. The food sold is not one sold in the district’s food service program at that school during that day.



Regulation ADELANTO SCHOOL DISTRICT
approved: September 14, 2004 Adelanto, California