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Safe School Meals for Kids Act

Introduced: April 11, 2019 Introduced by: Gillibrand, Kirsten E. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Apr 11, 2019
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Safe School Meals for Kids Act

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to ban from the school meal programs all food that has been treated with chlorpyrifos or has a chlorpyrifos residue greater than 0.001 micrograms per kilogram of food. (Chlorpyrifos is a pesticide that some studies have linked to developmental disabilities in children.)

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1187: Safe School Meals for Kids Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1187/
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"S. 1187: Safe School Meals for Kids Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1187/.
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S. 1187, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1187/.
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