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Coverage dated October 7, 2025

California enacts nation’s first law to define and ban ultraprocessed foods

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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — California made history Wednesday by enacting the first law in the United States to define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs, from meals served to over one billion California schoolchildren annually.

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  1. KESQ Palm Springs

    California enacts nation’s first law to define and ban ultraprocessed foods (opens KESQ Palm Springs)

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    By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — California made history Wednesday by enacting the first law in the United States to define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs, from meals served to over one billion California schoolchildren annually.

  2. NBC News

    California becomes the first state to phase ultraprocessed food out of school meals (opens NBC News)

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    A new law will make California the first state to phase some ultraprocessed food out of school meals.

  3. WHEC Rochester

    New California law aims to improve school nutrition by phasing out some ultraprocessed foods (opens WHEC Rochester)

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    California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law phasing out certain ultraprocessed foods from school meals. The state will have to adopt rules by 2028 defining “ultraprocessed foods of concern” under the law.

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