As a partner in the Voices for Healthy Kids Coalition, Gasol Foundation is proud to join our public health colleagues in supporting California State Senator Nancy Skinner’s SB 348, Healthy Meals for Kids legislation which would set guidelines for the amount of sugar and sodium added to school meals in all California K-12 schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program. School meals can represent more than half of the calories many students will consume in a day, and SB 348 conforms California public school meals’ nutrition standards to the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation that children consume no more than 25 grams of added sugar per day and similar standards for sodium. 

We will have regular updates about SB 348 in our monthly newsletter, but you can let us know if you would like updates as the legislation makes its way through the legislative process and would like to weigh in on the bill.