School Nutrition Guidelines for Tasmania

The Tasmanian School Canteen Handbook is not a policy as such, but provides recommendations on how schools can develop a policy on food and nutrition, incorporating all school settings (such as within the classroom).

The Handbook forms the basis of the Tasmanian School Canteen Association’s Cool Canteen Accreditation Program (Cool CAP). Within the Accreditation guidelines is a traffic light food labelling system, with the recommendation that red foods and drinks be banned from the menu. The menu must not have more red products that green and amber combined.

CoolCAP accreditation is available to any Tasmanian government or non-government school.