Costa, Bipartisan Colleagues call on USDA to keep flavored milk in schools

WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and a group of bipartisan colleagues sent a  letter to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack in support of keeping flavored milk in schools in response to USDA’s recently-proposed rule.

“School nutrition programs provide students across the country with critical access to healthy meals, including nutritious flavored and unflavored milk options. Research has repeatedly proven that flavored milk in schools is an indispensably important tool for successfully delivering milk’s nutrients to school-aged children, and USDA must work to ensure this access continues,” the lawmakers write.

Read the full letter here.