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Food Sales Other than National School Lunch Program
No food or drinks of Minimal Nutritional Value (defined below) may be sold or dispensed in any school between the start of the school day until thirty minutes after the close of the last lunch period.
The school food authority is prohibited from selling extra food items (tea coffee, soft drinks and candy) anywhere on the school premises from thirty minutes prior to the start of any state or federally subsidized food service program until thirty minutes after any such program. The income from the sale to students of food items anywhere on the school premises during this time period shall accrue to the school food authority for the benefit of the state or federally subsidized food service programs.
Promotional candy sales shall be limited to the period before the start of the school day and after the close of the school day. Such sales require the approval of the school principal.
The listing of categories of foods of less than minimal nutritional value shall be used as a guide to sales of competitive foods and drinks in the schools, with the understanding that the listing may be modified by the USDA and/or the State of Connecticut. The list follows:
Categories of Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value
1. Soda Water -A class of beverages made by absorbing carbon dioxide in potable water. This includes products containing artificial sweeteners or discrete nutrients.
2. Water Ices - As defined by 21 CFR 135.160 FDA regulations except that water ices which contain fruit or fruit juices are not included in this definition.
3. Chewing Gum - Flavored products from natural or synthetic gums and other ingredients which form an insoluble mass for chewing.
4. Certain Candies - Processed foods made predominantly from sweeteners with a variety of minor ingredients which characterize the following types:
a. Hard candy, such as sour balls, fruit balls, candy sticks, lollipops, starlight mints, after dinner mints, sugar wafers, rock candy, cinnamon candies, breath mints, jaw breakers and cough drops.
b. Jellies and gums, such as gum drops, jelly beans, jellied and fruit-flavored slices.
c. Marshmallow candies
d. Fondant, such as candy corn, soft mints
e. Licorice - a product made mostly from sugar and corn syrup which is flavored with an extract made from the licorice root.
f. Spun candy
g. Candy coated popcorn, a product made by coating popcorn with a mixture made predominantly from sugar and corn syrup.
Legal Reference: Connecticut General Statutes and State Regulations:
§10-215 Lunches, breakfasts and other feeding programs
§10-215b-1 Competitive foods
§10-215B-23 Income from the sale of food items
Federal law and regulations:
42 U.S.C.A. § 1779
7 C.F.R. § 210-11
7 C.F.R. § 210, App. B
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