PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to nutrition. (See Act) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

The school food ban was changed from prohibiting specific 'prohibited ingredients' to prohibiting any 'ultra processed food' containing certain additives.

The list of ingredients requiring warning labels on food packaging was expanded from 15 items to over 40 items, including new substances like melatonin, DMAA, and various dyes.

Continuing education requirements for physicians were split: emergency medicine doctors must now take a sickle cell disease course, while doctors in other specialties must take nutrition and metabolic health courses.

The requirement for schools to purchase food produced in-state was removed from the text.

A new definition for 'ultra processed food' was added to specify which products are banned in schools.

Added Titanium Dioxide to the list of prohibited ingredients in school food.

Extended continuing education on nutrition and metabolic health to physicians in specialties like psychiatry, endocrinology, and cardiology, and changed the requirement for emergency medicine providers to every three years instead of every two.

Explicitly exempted food sold in concession stands and vending machines from the new labeling requirements.

Added five new sponsors to the bill, expanding the coalition of legislators supporting the measure.

Added a requirement that public and nonpublic schools receiving state funds must ensure at least 20% of purchased food is produced in Louisiana starting in the 2027-2028 school year.

Added new continuing education requirements for physicians, physician assistants, and advanced practice nurses in specific specialties to complete a one-hour course on nutrition and metabolic health every two years.

Added a requirement for food establishments to disclose the use of seed oils.

Modified the list of prohibited ingredients in general food products, removing several items like bleached flour and partially hydrogenated oil while retaining others like aspartame and azodicarbonamide.

Added a new list of prohibited ingredients in school food, including azodicarbonamide, BHA, BHT, potassium bromate, and various artificial sweeteners and dyes.