NOTICES
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC Program); WIC 2011-2012 Food List
[41 Pa.B. 5459]
[Saturday, October 8, 2011]I. 2011-2012 WIC Food List
Under 28 Pa. Code § 1103.5(a) (relating to minimum inventory), the WIC Program publishes notice of the 2011-2012 WIC Food List which contains the required types of foods and, if applicable, names of the allowable brands of foods. Effective October 1, 2011, the 2011-2012 WIC Food List authorizes the following as allowable foods for the purpose of the WIC Program.
Cheese Regular, reduced fat, low fat or fat free, low cholesterol, low sodium, lactose free, smoked or calcium fortified. Cheese must be marked with weight, type and cost. Cheese must be in the form of a block, sliced, shredded, stick or string cheese. Package size must be 8 or 16 ounces.
American (Pasteurized Process) Cheddar Cheddarella Cojack Colby (Longhorn) Monterey Jack Mozzarella Muenster Provolone Swiss Kosher cheese must be specified on the WIC check to be purchased using a WIC check.
Not Allowed: Individually wrapped slices, imported, deli service, cheese foods, imitation cheese, cheese products or spreads, cheese with added ingredients, organic cheese, cheese packed in water.
Cow's Milk Fluid (pasteurized; quart, 1/2 gallons or gallons) Any fat level allowed as specified on the WIC check. Acidophilus allowed. Lactose free if specified on the WIC check. Evaporated (12 ounce cans) if specified on the WIC check. Dry if specified on the WIC check.
Not Allowed: Flavored milk, buttermilk, goat's milk, milk with added calcium, protein or plant sterols, vitamin C, omega 3s, organic milk, ultra high temperature (UHT) processed milk, milk in glass bottles.
Soy Beverage
32 or 64 ounce containers: Pacific Natural Foods—Ultra Soy (plain or vanilla flavored)
8th Continent Soymilk original or vanilla flavor Not Allowed: Any other brand or type of soy beverage.
Tofu
16 ounce containers: Azumaya—firm and extra firm house foods premium—regular, firm, extra firm Nasoya—silken, light silken Not Allowed: Any other brand or type of tofu
Chicken Eggs Grade A regular: large, medium or small raw shell brown or white chicken eggs in one dozen package.
Not Allowed: Specialty eggs such as, vegetarian fed, organic eggs, low cholesterol, fat modified, high in omega 3s, and the like.
Legumes (Beans) Black beans, blackeye peas, garbanzo beans, great northern beans, kidney beans, lima beans, navy beans, pinto beans, soybeans, split peas and lentils.
1 pound dry or 15.5 to 16 ounce canned any brand (canned kidney beans may contain sugar)
Not Allowed: Green beans, green peas, snap beans, yellow beans, wax beans, pork-n-beans, beans with added seasonings, sugars, oils, sauces, meats, organic beans
Fruits and Vegetables Fruits Allowed:
Fresh, whole or cut without added sugars. Frozen, without added sugars. Canned, jarred or multi pack without added sugars, fats, oils or sodium (salt).
Vegetables Allowed:
Fresh, whole or cut without added sugars, fats or oils. Frozen, without added sugars, fats or oils.
Canned or jarred, without added sugars, fats or oils (whole kernel corn and green peas can contain sugar).
Sweet potatoes and yams.
Organic fruits and vegetables can be purchased.
Not allowed:
• Party trays, fruit baskets, salad bar items
• Ingredients other than fruit—sugar, honey, high fructose corn syrup, heavy or light syrup, dextrose, sucrose, maple syrup, artificial sweeteners, fats, oils or sodium (salt)
• Ingredients other than vegetables—sugar, honey, high fructose corn syrup, cheese sauce, noodles, rice, nuts, spices, fats or oils
• Any type of white potatoes (including Red Bliss, Purple and Yukon Gold)
• Sauerkraut, pickled vegetables, olives
• Jarred salsa, pasta sauce
• Fresh herbs and spices, edible blossoms
• Dried fruit, trail mix
• Fruit leathers, fruit snacks, fruit roll-ups
• Fruit and nut mixtures
• Fruit cocktails, cranberry sauce, pie filling
• Baked goods
• Infant or toddler fruits and vegetables
Juice Single Strength (48 ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Apple Apple & Eve, Food Club, Lucky Leaf, Musselman's, Nestle Juicy Juice, Red & White, Seneca, Shurfine Cranberry Apple & Eve, Northland 100% Grape
(purple or white)America's Choice, Nestle Juicy Juice, Red & White, Shurfine, White Rose Juice Blends Apple & Eve: Cranberry Apple and Cranberry Raspberry
Northland: Cranberry Grape
Nestle Juicy Juice: All flavorsPineapple Food Club, Shurfine Single Strength (64 ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Apple Acme, America's Choice, Apple & Eve, Flavorite, Food Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Hannaford, Krasdale, Lucky Leaf, Mott's, Musselman's, Old Orchard, Red & White, Richfood, Safeway, Seneca, Shop-N-Save, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Tipton Grove, Weis Quality, White Rose Cranberry Acme, Flavorite, Food Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Hannaford, Richfood, Safeway, Shop-N-Save, Shurfine, Weis Quality Grape (purple, red or white) Acme, America's Choice, Apple & Eve, Flavorite, Food Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Hannaford, Lucky Leaf, Mott's, Musselman's, Old Orchard, Red & White, Richfood, Safeway, Seneca, Shop-N-Save, Shurfine, Tipton Grove, Valu Time, Weis Quality, White Rose Orange Any Brand, calcium and vitamin D added allowed Pineapple Acme, Flavorite, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Libby's, Our Family, Richfood, Safeway, Shop-N-Save, Shurfine, Wegmans, Weis Quality Tomato Campbell's (regular or low sodium) Vegetable Campbell's V8 (regular or low sodium) Juice Blends Apple & Eve—all flavors (including Sesame Street) except ''Cranberry Juice & More''
Nestle Juicy Juice—all flavors
Old Orchard—100% juice flavors, no premium flavorsFrozen Concentrated (11.5 to 12 ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Apple America's Choice, Flavorite, Food Club, Giant, Hannaford, Great Value, Old Orchard, Richfood, Safeway, Seneca, Shop-N-Save, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Sunrise Valley, Value Time, Weis Quality Apple Juice Blends Old Orchard (all flavors with green pull tab top) Orange Any brand (including calcium and vitamin D added) Grape Welch's (all flavors with yellow pull tab top) White Grape Juice Blends Welch's (all flavors with yellow pull tab top) Shelf Stable Concentrated (11.5 to 12 ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Juicy Juice any flavor, Welch's any flavor with yellow trim
Not Allowed: Ciders, cocktails, artificial sweeteners, food colorings, added sugar, alcohol, carbonation, fiber, omega 3s, DHA, ARA, beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin E, organic juice.
Cereal Adult/Child Cereals:
Minimum package size 12 ounces
Better Oats: Good 'n Hearty Oatmeal (classic or maple and brown sugar) General Mills: Cheerios (regular, multigrain)
Chex (wheat, corn, rice, multi bran)
Kix (regular, honey or berry berry)
Total (whole grain)
Wheaties (regular flavor only)Kellogg Co.: All Bran Complete Wheat Flakes
Corn Flakes
Crispix
Frosted Mini Wheats (Little Bite, Bite Size, Big Bite or Unfrosted)
Rice Krispies (regular or gluten free brown rice krispies)
Special K (regular)Malto Meal, bag or
box:Crispy rice, Honey & Oat Blenders (regular or almond) Maypo: Instant Maple Oatmeal Nabisco: Cream of Wheat: Instant original, 1 minute, 2 1/2 minutes, 10 minutes, whole grain Post: Banana Nut Crunch
Grape-Nuts & Grape-Nut Flakes
Bran Flakes
Honey Bunches of Oats (Honey Roasted, with Almonds, Cinnamon Clusters, Vanilla Clusters)
Shredded Wheat Vanilla AlmondQuaker Co.: Original Instant Grits
Crunchy Corn Bran
Oat Bran Essentials
King Vitaman
Life (regular flavor)
Oatmeal Squares (cinnamon or brown sugar)Store Brand Cereal: Corn Flakes, Toasted Oats, Corn Squares-Biscuits, Rice Squares-Biscuits: (America's Choice, Flavorite, Food Club, Giant, Great Value, Hannaford, Ralston Foods, Richfood, Safeway, Shop-N-Save, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Weis Quality) Not Allowed: Individual serving boxes, Organic cereal, any other brand or type of cereal.
Peanut Butter 18 ounce container, labeled ''Peanut Butter'' only
Not Allowed: Reduced fat peanut butter, peanut butter spread, peanut butter mixed with jelly, marshmallow, chocolate or honey, organic peanut butter, added omega 3s, DHA, ARA or artificial sweeteners.
Infant Formula Contract Brand
Milk Based: Gerber GOOD START Gentle Soy Based: Gerber GOOD START Soy Other brands and types of formula must be specified on the WIC check.
Infant Foods
Infant Cereal: Gerber rice, oatmeal, barley, whole wheat or mixed grain in 8 or 16-ounce box. Not Allowed: Organic varieties, variety pack, cereal with fruit, formula, yogurt, DHA, ARA or any other added ingredients. Infant Fruits and Vegetables: 4 ounce containers of 100% fruits or vegetables. Not Allowed: Desserts, organic varieties, mixed with salt, sugar, cereal, rice, noodles, meats, yogurt, DHA, ARA or any other ingredients. Infant Meats: 2.5 ounce containers of single ingredient meats (with or without gravy or broth), brand listed on the WIC check. Not Allowed: Organic varieties, mixed with salt, sugar, cereal, rice, noodles, vegetables, fruit, DHA, ARA or any other ingredients.
Canned Fish Chunk Light Tuna, Pink Salmon or Sardines in 3.75, 5 or 6 ounce cans only
Not Allowed: Products packed in oil, albacore tuna, brisling sardines, red salmon, organic fish.
Whole Grains 16 ounce packages:
Whole Wheat Bread and Rolls
Store Brands 100% Whole Wheat Bread:
Acme, America's Choice, Giant, Great Value, Hannaford, Pathmark, Shop RiteArnold—100% Stoneground Whole Wheat Bread
Bimbo—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Hauswald 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Nickles—Country Style 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Pepperidge Farms—Stoneground 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Very Thin Soft 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Roman Meal—Sungrain 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Sara Lee—Classic 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Schmidt—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Stern's—100% Whole Wheat Bread, Whole Wheat Rolls
Stroehmann—Small 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Windmill Farms—100% Stoneground Whole Wheat Bread-Hamotzie, 100% Stoneground Whole Wheat Bread-Mezonot, 6 pack Whole Wheat Rolls
Wonder—Soft 100% Whole Wheat BreadTortillas
Store Brands: Yellow or White Corn, or Whole Wheat; Food Club, Giant Eagle, Nature's Promise, Weis Quality
Hand Made Style Whole Wheat—Shop Rite, Shurfine
Whole Wheat Fajita Style—HannafordCarlita—Corn Tortilla
Celia's—Yellow or White Corn and Whole Wheat
Chi Chi's—White Corn Tortillas or Whole Wheat Torti lla Fajita Style
Don Pancho—Yellow or White Corn Tortillas or Whole Wheat Tortillas
La Banderita—Corn Tortillas and Fajita Whole Wheat
La Burrita—Yellow Corn Tortillas
MexAmerican—Whole Wheat with Honey
MiCasa—100% Whole Wheat Tortillas
Mission—Yellow Corn Extra Thin Tortillas and Whole Wheat Tortillas
Ortega—Whole Wheat
Pepito—Corn or Whole Wheat
Whole Grain Brown Rice: Uncle Ben's—Natural Whole Grain Brown Rice
Lundberg—Long or Short Grain Brown Rice (no other varieties)Store Brands: Acme, America's Choice, Flavorite, Food Club, Giant, Great Value, Gulf Pacific, Richfood, Safeway, Shop-N-Save, Shur-fine, Weis Quality, White Rose
Oats: 16 ounce packages: Mom's Best Natural Quick Oats, Mother's Rolled Oats
24 ounce packages:
Whole Wheat Bread and Rolls
Arnold—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Brownberry—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Freihofer—Hearty 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Gold Medal—Natural or Premium Whole Wheat Bread
Nickles—Country Style 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Pepperidge Farms—100% Natural Stone Ground, 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Farmhouse soft 100% Whole Wheat Bread Stroehmann—Dutch Country 100% Whole Wheat, Fam ily Grains 100% Whole Wheat
Weis—From the Oven 100% Whole Wheat BreadOats—Quaker Steel Cut Oats
Not Allowed: Any other package size, brand or type of whole grain products, organic whole grains, items with added omega-3s, dried fruits, seeds, nuts, extra calcium or vitamin D
II. Contract Brand of Formula
Under 28 Pa. Code § 1103.5(c), the WIC Program publishes notice of the name of the contract brand of infant formula. The WIC Program has entered into a contract with NESTLÉ to be the primary provider of infant formula for the WIC Program. The contract brand of infant formula is Gerber GOOD START Gentle and Gerber GOOD START Soy. Other brands and types of formula must be specified on the WIC check to be authorized for purchase with a WIC check. The information contained herein is effective October 1, 2011.
Persons with a disability who require an alternative format of this notice (for example, large print, audiotape, Braille) should contact Chris Harr, Department of Health, Division of WIC, 2150 Herr Street, Harrisburg, PA 17105, (717) 783-1289. For speech and/or hearing impaired persons V/TT (717) 783-6514 or the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Services at (800) 654-5984.
ELI N. AVILA, MD, JD, MPH, FCLM,
Secretary
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 11-1743. Filed for public inspection October 7, 2011, 9:00 a.m.]
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