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Clinton Deal Cuts School Snack Foods - Clinton forges guidelines with major snack makers to ban unhealthy items from schools [USA]
Snacks sold in schools will have to cut the fat, sugar and salt under the latest crackdown on junk food won by former President Clinton. Just five months after a similar agreement targeting the sale of sodas in schools, Clinton and the American Heart Association announced a deal Friday with several major food companies to make school snacks healthier... The agreement with Kraft Foods Inc. [part of Altria], Mars Inc., Campbell Soup Co., Groupe Danone SA and PepsiCo Inc. sets guidelines for fat, sugar, sodium and calories for snack foods sold in [schools]... [also refers to Frito-Lay (part of PepsiCo), Quaker Foods (part of PepsiCo), Snickers (part of Mars), M&Ms (part of Mars)]