The 2002 School Health Act requires schools with 40 or more classes to hire at least one nutritionist to oversee the provision of school meals; local education bureaus must also hire nutritionists. But due to a variety of factors, such as budget problems, the reality is that local governments have as yet to comprehensively implement the law.
而根據民國 91 年立法院通過的「學校衛生法」規定，40 班以上的中小學，應至少設置營養師一名，由其負責督導及執行學校午餐，各縣市主管機關也應設置營養師若干人；但實際上，各地方政府礙於經費等因素，並未落實法令規定。