USDA packs school snacks: A pilot program will provide apple slices to schools

摘要

SUPPLYING fresh-cut apple slices to schools is the goal of a pilot program USDA hopes to launch by Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year. The idea is notable because in the past, USDA has focused mostly on purchasing surplus products from the fresh market, creating frozen, canned, or dried items from them for schools and food banks. David Tuckwiller, chief of the commodity procurement branch of the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) fruit and vegetable programs, cites this fact as one of the reasons AMS decided to consider the pilot program.