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Photo Gallery: Healthy School Food Brigade on Capitol Hill
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The Healthy Food Brigade getting ready for the advocacy day
Deidre Hall speaking at the Press Conference
Barb Kowalcyk from Food, Inc and the Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention
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