Category: Member Updates

On April 24, 2024, USDA released its final rule overhauling its school breakfast and lunch programs, limiting sugar and further reducing sodium levels in meals. Notably for the potato...

On March 26, U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) led a bipartisan group of 14 Senators in writing to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Thomas...

The House and Senate last week released the Fiscal Year 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies appropriations bill text, providing $26.3 billion in discretionary...

In its latest comments to the committee working on recommendations that will form the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, NPC this week called on the group to consider modeling...

The National Potato Council today submitted feedback to EPA, USDA, and FDA in response to the “Draft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics,” which...

NPC submitted public comments to CFIA’s risk management documents, noting the severity of the consequences should potato wart be transmitted to the United States.

The National Potato Council submitted written testimony to the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee – a panel of nutrition and public health experts created to inform the federal government’s...

Here are two facts that should be obvious to anyone writing public policy. First: Potatoes are nutritional powerhouses, offering both affordability and flexibility as America’s favorite vegetable. Second: Potatoes...

During this week’s Potato Association of America Certification Section Meeting in Washington, D.C., representatives from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced its process for developing, finalizing, and implementing...