ASMI Petitions USDA to Include Alaskan Salmon in Women, Infants and Children Program (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] March 30, 2015
This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. A push for healthier foods and fish for America’s moms and babies. Learn how to help after this
For the first time since 1980 the Unites States Department of Agriculture’s popular Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC program is being revised. It is giving people a chance to voice what healthier foods should be offered to moms and their babies. Alaskans have the opportunity to say they want more fish included in all the packages.
“That’s what we are looking for we are looking for pregnant women to comment, mothers, from anybody that has two to three year olds, four to five year olds, and a mother who has a 6 month old and wants to start making salmon baby food in their own kitchen.”
Bruce Schactler is the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s Global Food Aid Director...
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