The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) asked the Child Nutrition Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to include frozen products in the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Programs and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).
Refrigerated & Frozen Foods turns
to American Frozen Food Institute President
and CEO Leslie Sarasin for a Washington, D.C., insider’s view of ethanol
subsidies and the “food-versus-fuel” debate.
They say February is the
cruelest month. Like so many people wanting relief from winter, food
processors last month looked to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for some
signs of relief from record commodity feed and/or ingredient costs.