Initially, local WIC clinics issued packages of food for recipients, based on such criteria as an individual’s health status, food preferences and age. The targeted nutrients identified in the law served as the basis for determining the actual food items to be provided to participants.
Of the population at nutritional risk: high-quality protein, iron, calcium, vitamins A and C. Supplemental foods were to contain nutrients known to be lacking in the diets Recipients have to be objectively evaluated as being at nutritional risk to qualify. In 1972, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants andĬhildren (WIC) was created to provide specific food, nutrition education, social services and health care referrals to low-income women who were pregnant, postpartum or breastfeeding, as well as infants and children under 5 years of age. WIC Food Package: History of the Sugar Cap Summary The report will be updated if and when there is a policy change. The recent congressional directive on the WIC cereal sugar cap and several related issues are also reviewed. The continuing debate and positions on the sugar cap among health professionals and the industry are provided. Following a brief background on the program itself, it reviews the WIC food requirements, the long controversy over the sugar content of WIC cereals, and the federal WIC regulation that sets a per serving sugar limit. This report provides a historic review of the WIC food package and the controversy over the sugar cap on cereals allowed in the program. Domestic Social Policy Division Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress ABSTRACT
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