The comment period closed on 11/06/06.
Comments received during the comment period are
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This proposed rule, published August 7, 2006, would revise regulations governing
the WIC food packages to align the WIC food packages with the 2005
Dietary Guidelines for Americans and current infant feeding practice
guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics, better promote and
support the establishment of successful long-term breastfeeding, provide
WIC participants with a wider variety of food, provide WIC State
agencies with greater flexibility in prescribing food packages to
accommodate participants with cultural food preferences, and serve
participants with certain qualifying conditions under one food package
to facilitate efficient management of medically fragile participants.
The revisions largely reflect recommendations made by the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academies in its Report
“WIC Food Packages:
Time for a Change,” with certain cost containment and administrative modifications found
necessary by the Department to ensure cost neutrality.
Please note: On 9/1/06, the Federal Register
published corrections in two tables, noted below. The corrections
reflect formatting changes only. No changes have been made to the
language or amounts of the proposed revisions.
1. On page 44795, the table entitled ``Exhibit G.--Number of Powder
Infant Formula Containers Issued to an Infant Participant Born
01/01/2006, for Food Packages I & II Fully Formula Fed (FF) Using
Rounding Up'' is being reprinted in its entirety. (The correction
adds the heading “Mead Johnson’s Enfamil Lipil” to the first column
of the table. The heading had been inadvertently dropped.)
2. On page 44817, in Sec. 246.10(e)(9), Table 1 is being reprinted
in its entirety.
(The correction reformats the table to clarify that two columns
(Food Packages I BF/FF & III BF/FF and Food Package II BF/FF) appear
under the heading “Partially breastfed (BF/FF)” and two columns
(Food Package I BF and II BF) appear under the heading “Fully
breastfed (BF).”
The comment period closed on 11/06/06.
Comments received during the comment period are
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November 6,
2006. Please note: While your comments will be
considered, no replies will be sent in response to individual comments.
All comments submitted within the comment period in response to this proposed rule
will be included in the record and will be made available to the public.
Please be advised that the substance of the comments and the identities
of the individuals or entities submitting the comments will be subject
to public disclosure. All written submissions will be available for
public inspection at 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 528, Alexandria,
Virginia 22302, during regular business hours
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comments publicly available by posting a copy of all comments on the FNS
Web site at
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