NOTICES

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC Program); 2015-2016 WIC Food List

[45 Pa.B. 5646]
[Saturday, September 12, 2015]

I. 2015-2016 WIC Food List

 Under 28 Pa. Code § 1103.5(a) (relating to minimum inventory), the WIC Program publishes notice of the 2015-2016 WIC Food List which contains the required types of foods and, if applicable, names of the allowable brands of foods. Effective October 1, 2015, the 2015-2016 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 milk allowed. Lactose free milk allowed, if specified on the WIC check. Evaporated (12-ounce cans), if specified on the WIC check. Dry milk allowed, 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 processed milk, milk in glass bottles.

Soy Beverage

32-ounce or 64-ounce containers:

Pacific Natural Foods—Ultra  Soy (Plain or Vanilla  flavored) 8th Continent Soymilk  Original or Vanilla Flavor Silk Original

 Not Allowed: Any other brand or type of soy beverage.

Yogurt (32-ounce containers only)

 Whole Fat Yogurts:

Dannon	All Natural Plain
ShopRite	Plain

 Lowfat Yogurts:

America's Choice	Plain, Strawberry, Vanilla
Best Yet	Plain, Vanilla
Coburn Farms	Vanilla
Dannon	Plain, Vanilla
Essential Everyday	Peach, Plain, Raspberry,  Strawberry, Strawberry  Banana, Vanilla
Food Club	Vanilla
Giant	Plain
Giant Eagle	Plain, Vanilla
Great Value	Peach, Strawberry, Strawberry  Banana, Vanilla
ShopRite	Plain, Vanilla
Shurfine	Plain, Vanilla
Weis Quality	Peach, Plain, Strawberry
Yoplait	Harvest Peach, Strawberry,  Strawberry Banana, Vanilla

 Nonfat Yogurts:

America's Choice	Plain
Best Yet	Plain, Vanilla
Coburn Farms	Plain
Dannon	All Natural Plain
Essential Everyday	Plain
Food Club	Plain
Giant	Plain, Vanilla
Giant Eagle	Plain
Great Value	Plain
Market Pantry	Plain
ShopRite	Plain, Vanilla
Shurfine	Plain, Vanilla
Weis Quality	Plain, Vanilla
Yoplait	Plain

Tofu

16-ounce containers:

House Foods Premium—  Medium Firm, Firm,  Extra Firm Nasoya—Silken

 Not Allowed: Any other brand or type of tofu.

Chicken Eggs

 Any Brand Grade A or AA Regular: large, medium or small raw shell brown or white chicken eggs in 1-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, black eye peas, garbanzo beans, great northern beans, kidney beans, lima beans, navy beans, pinto beans, soybeans, butter beans, pink beans, split peas and lentils.

 1 pound dry or 15 1/2-ounce to 16-ounce canned any brand (canned kidney beans may contain sugar)

 Not Allowed: Green beans, green peas, green lima beans, snap beans, yellow beans, wax beans, pork-n-beans, beans with added seasonings, sugars, oils, fats, sauces, meats, organic beans.

Fruits and Vegetables

 Fruits Allowed:

 Fresh, whole or cut without added sugars. Frozen, without added sugars. Canned, jarred or multipack 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. Organic fruits and vegetables can be purchased.

 Not allowed:

 • Party trays, fruit baskets, salad bar items

 • Items that contain dips or sauces

 • 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

 • Sauerkraut, pickled vegetables, olives

 • Jarred salsa, pasta sauce

 • Fresh herbs and spices, edible blossoms

 • Dried fruit, dried vegetables, trail mix

 • Fruit leathers, fruit snacks, fruit roll-ups

 • Fruit and nut mixtures

 • Fruit cocktails, cranberry sauce, pie filling

 • Baked goods containing fruit or vegetables

 • Infant or toddler fruits and vegetables

 • Maraschino cherries or products containing maraschino cherries

 • Squeezable fruit or vegetable pouches

Juice

 Single Strength (48-ounce container, 100% pure juice):

Apple	Apple & Eve, Essentials Everyday,  Giant Eagle, Juicy Juice, Lucky Leaf,  Musselman's, Red & White, Seneca,  Shurfine
Cranberry	Apple & Eve: Naturally Cranberry,  Northland Traditional Cranberry
100% Grape (purple or white)	Juicy Juice, Red & White, Shurfine
Juice Blends	Apple & Eve: Cranberry Apple and  Cranberry Raspberry Nestle Juicy  Juice: All flavors
Pineapple	Essentials Everyday, Shurfine

 Single Strength (64-ounce container, 100% pure juice):

Apple	America's Choice, Apple & Eve, Best  Yet, Essential Everyday, Food Club,  Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value,  Hytop, Krasdale, Lucky Leaf, Mott's,  Musselman's, Market Pantry, Old  Orchard, Red & White, Seneca, Shop  Rite, Shurfine, Tipton Grove, Weis  Quality
Cranberry	Best Yet, Essential Everyday, Food  Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great  Value, Shurfine
Grape (purple, red or white)	America's Choice, Best Yet, Essential  Everyday, Food Club, Giant, Giant  Eagle, Great Value, Hytop, Krasdale,  Market Pantry, Red & White, Shop  Rite, Shurfine, Tipton Grove, Value  Time, Weis Quality, Welch's
Orange	Any brand, calcium and vitamin D  added allowed
Pineapple	Best Yet, Essential Everyday, Food  Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great  Value, Libby's, Shurfine
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 Juicy Juice—all flavors Old Orchard—100% juice flavors, no  premium flavors

 Frozen Concentrated (11 1/2-ounce to 12-ounce container, 100% pure juice):

Apple	America's Choice, Best Yet, Essential  Everyday, Food Club, Giant,  Hannaford, Great Value, Market  Pantry, My Essentials, Old Orchard,  Seneca, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Tipton  Grove, Weis Quality
Apple Juice Blends	Old Orchard (all flavors with green pull  tab top)
Orange	Any brand (including calcium and  vitamin D added)
Grape	Essential Everyday, Food Club, Giant,  Hannaford, Market Pantry, 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 1/2-ounce to 12-ounce container, 100% pure juice):

 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

General Mills:	Cheerios (regular, multigrain, dulce de  leche) Chex (wheat, corn, rice) Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go Kix (regular, honey or berry berry) Total (whole grain) Fiber One Honey Clusters Wheaties (regular flavor only)
Kellogg Co.:	All Bran Complete Wheat Flakes Corn Flakes Crispix Frosted Mini Wheats Original (Little  Bite, Bite Size) Rice Krispies (regular) 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  or Healthy Grain
Post:	Alpha-Bits Grape-Nuts & Grape-Nut Flakes Great Grains Bran Flakes Honey Bunches of Oats (Honey Roasted,  with Almonds, Cinnamon Clusters,  Vanilla Clusters)
Quaker Co.:	Original Instant Grits Crunchy Corn Bran Life (regular flavor) Oatmeal Squares (cinnamon or brown  sugar)
Sunbelt Bakery:	Simple Granola
Store Brand Cereal:	Corn Flakes, Corn Squares-Biscuits,  Toasted Oats, Tasteeos, Rice  Squares-Biscuits: (America's Choice,  Essentials Everyday, Food Club,  Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value,  Hannaford, Ralston Foods, Shop Rite,  Shurfine, Weis Quality)

 Not Allowed: Individual serving boxes, organic cereal, any other brand or type of cereal.

Peanut Butter

 16-ounce to 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: Similac Advance

 Soy Based: Similac Soy Isomil

 Other brands and types of formula must be specified on the WIC check.

Infant Foods

 Infant Cereal: Brand specified on the WIC check: rice, oatmeal, barley, whole wheat or multigrain in 8-ounce or 16-ounce container.

 Not Allowed: Organic varieties, variety pack, cereal with fruit, formula, yogurt, DHA or ARA.

 Infant Fruits and Vegetables: Brand specified on the WIC check: 4-ounce containers of 100% fruits or vegetables.

 Not Allowed: Desserts, organic varieties, mixed with salt, sugar, cereal, rice, noodles, meats, yogurt, DHA, ARA, flour, starch, any other ingredients or squeezable pouches.

 Infant Meats: Brand specified on the WIC check: 2 1/2-ounce containers of single ingredient meats (with or without gravy or broth).

 Not Allowed: Organic varieties, mixed with salt, sugar, cereal, rice, noodles, vegetables, fruit, DHA, ARA, flour, starch or any other ingredients.

Canned Fish

 Chunk light tuna, pink salmon or sardines in 3 3/4-ounce, 5-ounce 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, Best Yet, Essential Every-
 day, Giant, Giant Eagle, Krasdale, Shoprite, Weis
 Quality

Arnold	100% Stoneground Whole Wheat  Bread
Bimbo	100% Whole Wheat Bread
Gold Medal	100% Whole Wheat Bread
Gourmet	100% Whole Wheat Bread
Harvest Pride	100% Whole Wheat Bread
Hauswald	100% Whole Wheat Bread
Monks	Wheat Whole Grain Bread
Nature's Harvest	100% Stone Ground Whole Wheat  Bread, Whole Wheat  Hamburger Buns, and Whole  Wheat Hot Dog Buns
Nature's Own	100% Whole Wheat with Honey
Nature's Promise	100% Whole Wheat
Nickles Country Style	100% Whole Wheat Bread
Pepperidge Farms	Stoneground 100% Whole Wheat  Bread, Very Thin Soft 100%  Whole Wheat Bread
Sara Lee	Classic 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Schmidt	Old Time—100% Whole Wheat  Bread
Schwebel's	100% Whole Wheat Bread
Stern's	Whole Wheat Bread, Whole Wheat  Rolls and Whole Wheat Hot Dog  Buns
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	100% Whole Wheat Bread

 Tortillas

Store Brands:	Giant Eagle	Fajita Size Tortillas  White Corn or  Soft Taco size  whole wheat  Tortillas
	Nature's Promise	Corn All Natural  Tortillas
	Giant	Yellow or White  Corn or Whole  Wheat Tortillas

Celia's	Yellow or White Corn
Chi Chi's	White Corn Tortillas, Whole  Wheat Fajita Style
Don Pancho	Yellow or White Corn Tortillas,  Whole Wheat Tortillas
Guerrero	Corn Tortillas
La Banderita	Corn Tortillas, Whole Wheat Soft  Taco, Whole Wheat Fajita  Tortillas
La Burrita	Yellow Corn Tortillas
MexAmerican	Whole Wheat with Honey
MiCasa	Whole Wheat Tortillas
Mission	Yellow Corn Extra Thin Tortillas  and Whole Wheat Tortillas
Ortega	Whole Wheat Tortillas
Siempre Autentico	Whole Wheat Tortillas

 Whole Grain Brown Rice:

 Blue Ribbon, Mahatma, Uncle Ben's: Natural Whole Grain Brown Rice

 Store Brands: America's Choice, Best Yet, Essentials Every Day, Giant, Great Value, Rice on the Side, Shurfine, Weis Quality

Oats: 16-ounce packages:

Mom's Best Natural Quick  Oats General Mills Gluten Free  Chex Oatmeal

 Whole Wheat Pasta 16-ounce

Essential Everyday:	Whole Wheat Spaghetti Whole Wheat Thin Spaghetti Whole Wheat Macaroni Whole Wheat Penne
Shurfine:	100% Whole Wheat Pasta:  Spaghetti, Penne Rigate
Weis Quality:	Whole Wheat Penne Rigate Whole Wheat Spaghetti Whole Wheat Angel Hair

 24-ounce packages:

 Whole Wheat Bread and Rolls

Archer Farms	100% Whole Wheat Bread
Arnold	100% Whole Wheat Bread
Brownberry	100% Whole Wheat Bread
Essential Everyday	100% Whole Wheat Bread
Freihofer	100% Whole Wheat Bread
Gold Medal	Natural or Premium 100%  Whole Wheat Bread
Gourmet	100% Whole Grain Bread
Nature's Promise	Natural 100% Whole Grain  Bread
Nickles	Country Style 100% Whole  Wheat Bread
Pepperidge Farms	Double Fiber, Farmhouse  Soft 100% Whole Wheat  Bread, Honey Oat,  Oatmeal Bread, Soft  Honey Whole Wheat  Bread, Whole Grain 100%  Whole Wheat Bread
ShopRite	100% Stone Ground Wheat  Bread, Premium 100%  Whole Wheat Bread,  Natural 100% Whole  Wheat Bread
Stroehmann	Dutch Country 100% Whole  Wheat Bread, Family  Grains 100% Whole Wheat  Bread

 Oats—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 Abbott Laboratories to be the primary provider of infant formula for the WIC Program. The contract brand of infant formula is Similac Advance and Similac Soy Isomil. 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, 2015.

 Persons with a disability who require an alternative format of this notice (for example, large print, audiotape, Braille) should contact Perce Morgan, Department of Health, Bureau of WIC, 625 Forster Street, 7 West Health and Welfare Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120, (717) 783-1289, or for speech and/or hearing impaired persons V/TT (717) 783-6514 or the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Service at (800) 654-5984.

KAREN M. MURPHY, PhD, RN, 
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 15-1665. Filed for public inspection September 11, 2015, 9:00 a.m.]

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