Public Law 105-336, the Buy American provision of the William F Goodling Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 1998: The contractor shall purchase, to the maximum extent practicable, domestic agricul

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tural commodities or products substantially processed in the United States, in accordance with 7 CFR 210.21(d) and 7 CFR 220.16(d). “Substantially” means the final processed product contains over 51% domestically grown agricultural commodities. This provision applies to all food purchases paid from the nonprofit school food services account. There are limited exceptions to this provision which allow for the purchase of products not meeting the “domestic” standard as described above (“non-domesti