Food manufacturers catch plenty of grief over the way they market junk food to kids. But the public is entirely unaware of the hundreds of millions of dollars those same corporations spend influencing the choice of foods served to children in schools by paying food service companies off-the-book rebates–sometimes referred to as kickbacks–to push their brand […]
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Attorneys for D.C. Public Schools have refused to release an accounting of more than $1 million in rebates received from corporate food manufacturers, claiming that details about the rebates constitute “trade secrets” and that exposing them to public scrutiny would hurt the “competitive position” of Chartwells, the school system’s contracted food service provider. The ruling by […]
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D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), author of recently passed “Healthy Schools” legislation, has asked the city’s attorney general, Peter Nickles, to assist D.C. Public Schools to make sure they are receiving all of the rebates to which they are entitled from their hired food services provider, Chartwells. Cheh’s request follows revelations that prosecutors in […]
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