WIC Action Corner: Comment on the New WIC Food Package The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced proposed revisions to the WIC food package, building on their commitment in the White House National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health to modernize WIC. Last updated in 2009, the new food package increases the value of WIC’s fruit and vegetable benefit, allows additional flexibility in food package sizes, adds seafood options, increases other food options to accommodate personal and cultural preferences, and better aligns with science-based dietary guidelines. The proposed food package will go a long way to reduce hunger, improve health outcomes for WIC families, and encourage more eligible New Yorkers to participate in WIC. We encourage WIC participants, leaders in health, anti-hunger advocates, and all child nutrition partners and friends to use this platform to submit comments to make permanent these positive changes that increase access to healthy, culturally appropriate food through WIC. Remember: Commenting to USDA is NOT a lobbying activity. The deadline to comment is February 21, 2023. Please use National WIC Association’s social media resources to spread the word and encourage others to submit comments. USDA also released a media toolkit that includes more information about the proposed updates and sample social media content, flyers, factsheets and other tools you can use to promote these improvements to WIC’s vital health and nutrition support. |
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