---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1777"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1777"
heading: "Use in school breakfast program of food designated as being in abundance or food donated by the Secretary of Agriculture"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1777"
units:
  - "Chapter 13A — Child Nutrition"
---

# §1777. Use in school breakfast program of food designated as being in abundance or food donated by the Secretary of Agriculture


Each school participating under [section 1773 of this title](/usc/42/1773.md) shall, insofar as practicable, utilize in its program foods designated from time to time by the [Secretary](/usc/42/1784.md?p=4) as being in abundance, either nationally or in the school area, or foods donated by the [Secretary](/usc/42/1784.md?p=4). Foods available under [section 1431 of title 7](/usc/7/1431.md) or purchased under section [612c](/usc/7/612c.md) or [1446a–1](/usc/7/1446a–1.md) of title 7, may be donated by the [Secretary](/usc/42/1784.md?p=4) to schools, in accordance with the needs as determined by local school authorities, for utilization in their feeding programs under this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–642, § 8, Oct. 11, 1966, 80 Stat. 888.)