Iowa and Indiana have received a waiver approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to ban junk food from being ...

Nebraska to Ban Soda and Energy Drinks From SNAP Under First USDA Waiver Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal ...

Learn more. USDA REVOKES A POULTRY PLANT’S LINE-SPEED WAIVER: The Food Safety Inspection Service has notified a Georgia-based poultry slaughter plant that, effective April 8, it can no longer ...

Moving forward with his plans to encourage West Virginians to make healthier choices, Gov. Patrick Morrisey took the first ...

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is learning that if you want something, you should ask for it. FSIS wants a beef plant to explore modernization through a waiver process ...

Kansas is closer to banning SNAP benefits from buying candy and soda pop after DCF submitted a waiver to USDA, which just granted one to Nebraska.

Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal waiver to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks under the benefit program for low-income Americans long known as food stamps. The move ...

The formal waiver would remove soda as a food product that can be purchased on SNAP, the program that replaced food stamps. Instead, the waiver request would add healthy food to be purchased with ...