NOTICES
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC Program); 2013-2014 WIC Food List
[43 Pa.B. 5678]
[Saturday, September 21, 2013]I. 2013-2014 WIC Food List
Under 28 Pa. Code § 1103.5(a) (relating to minimum inventory), the WIC Program publishes notice of the 2013-2014 WIC Food List which contains the required types of foods and, if applicable, names of the allowable brands of foods. Effective October 1, 2013, the 2013-2014 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, half 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 FlavorNot Allowed: Any other brand or type of soy beverage.
Tofu
16-ounce containers: Azumaya—Firm and Extra Firm
House Foods Premium—
Medium Firm, Firm, Extra Firm
Nasoya—Silken, Light SilkenNot Allowed: Any other brand or type of tofu
Chicken Eggs Any Brand 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, butter beans, pink beans, 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
• Items that contain dips or sauces
• Ingredients other than fruit—sugar, honey, high fruc-
tose 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, 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 mara-
schino cherries• Squeezable fruit or vegetable pouches
Juice Single Strength (48-ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Apple Apple & Eve, Giant Eagle, Musselman's, Nestle Juicy Juice, Red & White, Seneca, Shurfine Cranberry Apple & Eve Naturally Cranberry, Northland Traditional Cranberry 100% Grape
(purple or white)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 America's Choice, Apple & Eve, Essential Everyday, Food Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Hannaford, Harvest Classic, Krasdale, Lucky Leaf, Mott's Musselman's, My Essentials, Old Orchard, Red & White, Seneca, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Tipton Grove, Weis Quality, White Rose Cranberry Essential Everyday, Food Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Hannaford, Shop N Save, Shurfine, Weis Quality Grape (purple, red or white) America's Choice, Apple & Eve, Essential Everyday, Food Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Hannaford, Krasdale, Mott's Musselman's, Old Orchard, Red & White, Seneca, Shurfine, Tipton Grove, Valu Time, Weis Quality, White Rose Orange Any Brand, calcium and vitamin D added allowed Pineapple Essential Everyday, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Libby's, Our Family, 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, Food Club, Giant, Hannaford, Great Value, Old Orchard, Seneca, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Value Time, 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 Welch's (all flavors with yellow pull tab top) White Grape Juice Blends Welch's (all flavors with yellow pull tab top) Dole All flavors 100% juice Shelf Stable Concentrated (11.5- 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)
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, Big Bite or Unfrosted)
Rice Krispies (regular)
Special K (regular)
Frosted Mini Wheats Touch of Fruit- Raspberry
Frosted Mini Wheats Touch of Fruit- Mixed fruit
Scooby Doo
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)Quaker Co.: Original Instant Grits
Crunchy Corn Bran
Toasted Multigrain Crisps
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, Essentials Every Day, Food Club, Giant, 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- 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: Gerber: rice, oatmeal, barley, whole wheat or multigrain in 8- 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: 2.5- 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 3.75-, 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 & Rolls
Store Brands 100% Whole Wheat Bread:
Acme, America's Choice, Best Yet, Giant, Great Value, Hannaford, Shoprite, ShurfineArnold—100% Stoneground Whole Wheat Bread
Bimbo—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Hauswald 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
Stroehmann—Small 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Windmill Farms—100% Stoneground Whole Wheat Bread-Hamotzie, 100% Stoneground Whole Wheat Bread-Mezonot, 6 pack Whole Wheat RollsTortillas
Store Brands: Yellow or White Corn, or Whole Wheat; Food Club, Giant Eagle, Nature's Promise, Weis Quality
Giant Whole Wheat and Corn Tortillas (dairy and shelf stable)
Hannaford Whole Wheat Fajita Style
Shoprite & Shurfine Hand Made Style Whole WheatAmerica's Choice Whole Wheat Tortillas
Carlita—Corn or Whole Wheat Tortilla
Celia's—Yellow or White Corn and Whole Wheat
Chi Chi's—White Corn Tortillas or Whole Wheat Tor- tilla 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
Mission—Yellow Corn Extra Thin Tortillas and Whole Wheat Tortillas
My Essentials Whole Wheat Tortillas
Ortega—Whole WheatWhole Grain Brown Rice: Uncle Ben's—Natural Whole Grain Brown Rice
My Essentials Long Grain Natural Brown Rice
Store Brands: America's Choice, Best Yet, Essentials Every Day, Giant, Great Value, Gulf Pacific, Shurfine, White Rose
Oats: 16-ounce packages: Mom's Best Natural Quick Oats, Shurfine Quick 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
Giant Harvest 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Gold Medal—Natural or Premium Whole Wheat Bread
Pepperidge Farms—Oatmeal Bread, 15 Grain Bread, Soft Honey Whole Wheat Bread
ShopRite 100% Stone Ground Wheat Bread
Weis Quality—Whole Grain 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 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, 2013.
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, 7th Floor West Health and Welfare Building, 625 Forster Street, Harrisburg, PA 17120, (717) 783-1289, for speech and/or hearing impaired persons V/TT (717) 783-6514, or the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Service at (800) 654-5984.
MICHAEL WOLF,
Secretary
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 13-1762. Filed for public inspection September 20, 2013, 9:00 a.m.]
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