without further ado, i would like to introduce kevin concannon. thank you. thank you. >> thank you very much, sally. i think i will stand up. i can see folks over this way more readily. it's a pleasure for me to be here with all of you and at this conference, but both also added feature to be here with sally and with bill dietz again. we were together a week or so ago at weight of the nation here in d.c. as well. i'm particularly pleased to have the opportunity to share with you some of the very important initiatives we are in the midst of at the food and nutrition service, particularly starting with the focus on the healthy hunger-free kids act of 2010. passed just a little more than a year ago, this legislation has provided us with an abundance of new tools to help create healthy lives for our nation's children. we know that nutritious food is critical to meeting -- to feeding the minds of hungry children and the importance of our efforts is further highlighted again this month with the release of the institute of medicine report that said that schools are

so without further ado, i would like, i'd like to introduce kevin concannon. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, silly. i think i will stand up so i can see folks over this way more readily. it's a pleasure for me to be here with all of you, and at this conference, but of also added feature to be here with sally and with elites again. we will work together a week or so ago, way to the nation, here in d.c. as well. i'm particularly please have the opportunity to share with you some very important initiatives we're in the midst of at the third nutrition service starting with focus on the healthy hunger-free kids act of 2010. passed just a little more than a year ago. this legislation has provided us with an abundance of new tools to help create healthy lives for our nation's children. we know that nutritious food is critical to meeting the minds, defeating the minds of hungry children. and the importance of our efforts as for the highlighted again this month with the release of the medicine report that said that schools are cute defining obesity in our country. a

this morning we're going to hear from undersecretary for food nutrition and consumer services, kevin concannon and bill dietz who is director of nutrition, physical education and obesity at the cdc. giving a sort of an update of a number of the key administrative initiatives that have been going forward in the past several years. so we're going to see where things are, where they stand and where they're headed. so we're very pleased to have mike taylor here this morning to speak to us. before he begins, i'm like to introduce carol tucker-foreman, our distinguished fellow at cfa for food policy. she has a long record as an influential consumer advocate for cfa, so i'd like to turn it over to carol. carol? >> thanks, chris. good morning. good morning, folks. it's a terrific pleasure to be able to introduce mike taylor, the deputy commissioner of foods for the food and drug administration. this morning. consumer advocates who have worked with mike know that there's no other federal official that has ever brought the same level of intelligence, energy, creativity and integrity to the effort to mak