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Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Revisions in the WIC Food Packages
The Food and Nutrition Service published this final rule in the Federal Register on April 18, 2024. It took effect on June 17, 2024.
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What the agency says
This final rule considers public comments submitted in response to the proposed rule revising the WIC food packages published on November 21, 2022. It revises regulations to align the WIC food packages with the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans and to reflect recommendations from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine while promoting nutrition security and equity and considering program administration. The changes are intended to provide WIC participants with a wider variety of foods that align with the latest nutritional science; provide WIC State agencies with greater flexibility to prescribe and tailor food packages that accommodate participants' special dietary needs and personal and cultural food preferences; and address key nutritional needs to support healthy dietary patterns. This rule provides foods in amounts that are more consistent with the supplemental nature of the Program; encourages fruit and vegetable consumption; and strengthens support for individual breastfeeding goals to help establish long-term breastfeeding.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-07437
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Agriculture Department; Food and Nutrition Service
- Published
- April 18, 2024
- Takes effect
- June 17, 2024
- Dates
- Effective date: This rule is effective June 17, 2024.
- Docket
- FNS-2022-0007
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0584-AE82
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 7 CFR 246
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Civil rights; Food assistance programs; Foods; Grant programs-health; Grant programs-social programs; Indians; Infants and children; Maternal and child health; Nutrition; Penalties; Public health; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Women
- Pages
- 80
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