School Personnel To Be Trained To Meet Diet Guidelines by 1994

WASHINGTON--The Agriculture Department has set a 1994 deadline by which all school food-service personnel will be trained in methods to improve the nutritional quality of school meals, Secretary of Agriculture Edward R. Madigan announced last week.

"I can assure you that by [fiscal year] 1994 all food-service personnel in the United States will have the tools and the training they need to improve the school-lunch program to meet the dietary guidelines," Mr. Madigan said.

This is the first time the department, which administers the national school-lunch program, has set a deadline for ensuring that school meals...