Category
Competitive Foods—HS
Category
Competitive Foods—HS
State law requires nutrition standards for food and beverages sold outside of school meal programs that do not meet Smart Snacks.
17 V.I.C. _ 142
a)Each school may, with the approval of the Board of Education, sell to students beverages in vending machines during the school day so long as:
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(1)Soft drinks are not sold—
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(A)during the breakfast and lunch periods;
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(B)at elementary schools; or
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(C)contrary to the requirements of the National School Lunch Program of the federal government.
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(2)Sugared, carbonated soft drinks, including mid-calorie carbonated soft drinks, are not offered for sale in middle schools;
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(3)Not greater than 50% of the offerings for sale to students in high schools are sugared carbonated soft drinks; and
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(4)Bottled water products are available in every school that has beverage vending.
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(b)Nothing in subsection (a) of this section prohibits a school from adopting stricter policies with respect to beverage vending or from selling diet carbonated soft drinks.
(c)Snack vending in all schools must, by the 2007/2008 school year, ensure that:
- (1)in elementary schools, no snack vending is available to students; and
- (2)in middle and high schools, 75% of snack vending products contains not more than 200 calories per portion or snack vending package