FNS Documents & Resources

This video is intended to provide information about cleaning and sanitizing food contact surfaces best practices for summer meals served by schools and other retail foodservice operations, including in non-congregate settings.

This video is intended to provide information about alternative meal service and delivery food safety best practices for summer meals served by schools and other retail foodservice operations, including in non-congregate settings.

This video is intended to provide health and hygiene food safety best practices for summer meals served by schools and other retail foodservice operations, including in non-congregate settings.

This video is intended to provide information about navigating food safety regulations for food safety best practices in summer meals served by schools and other retail foodservice operations, including in non-congregate settings.

This is the introduction to a video series intended to provide food safety best practices for summer meals served by schools and other retail foodservice operations, including in non-congregate settings.

On Feb. 21, 2024, FNS published a proposed rule Serious Deficiency Process in the Child and Adult Care Food Program and Summer Food Service Program. This webinar recording provides an explanation of the major proposed changes as they relate to CACFP and SFSP.

A webinar for state agency and school food authority staff focused on the community eligibility provision. 

FNS published this recorded webinar on Feb. 28, 2024 for state agencies. The webinar includes a summary of the new memos released in Sept. 2023 and goes into detail about best practices for unused reimbursements and site proximity.

This guidance updates previously issued questions and answers to clarify the rural non-congregate summer meals option established through the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, and codified through the interim final rulemaking, Establishing the Summer EBT Program and Rural Non-congregate Option in the Summer Meal Programs. 

The Community Eligibility Provision is a National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program meal service option that allows schools and school districts located in high poverty areas to offer breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students.