2007: American Beverage Association Policy

The newly-adopted policy of the American Beverage Association, relating to school vending, is as follows:

1. Provide only bottled water and 100% juices to elementary school students.

2. Provide nutritious and/or lower calorie beverages to middle school students, such as bottled water, 100% juice drinks, sports drinks, no-calorie soft drinks and low-calorie juice drinks. No full-calorie soft drinks or full-calorie juice drinks with 5% or less juice will be provided until after school hours.

3. Provide a variety of beverage choices to high school students, such as bottled water, 100% juice drinks, sports drinks and juice drinks. No more than 50% of the vending selections will be soft drinks.