This video is intended to provide food safety best practices for keeping food cold for summer meals served by community operations, including in non-congregate settings.
This video is intended to provide food safety best practices for cleaning and sanitizing food contact surfaces for summer meals served by community operations, including in non-congregate settings.
This video is intended to provide alternative meal service and distribution food safety best practices for summer meals served by community operations, including in non-congregate settings.
This is the third video in a series of videos that provides health and hygiene food safety best practices for summer meals served by community operations, including in non-congregate settings.
This video is the second in a series that provides information about navigating food safety regulations for summer meals served by community operations, including in non-congregate settings.
This video is the first in a series that provide food safety best practices for summer meals served by community operations, including in non-congregate settings.
FNS works to ensure all communities in need have access to foods that support health and well-being. Our goal is to ensure program participants have access to culturally and religiously preferred foods and that program operators have resources to best serve their communities.
Little is known about the food safety risks associated with the various production methods by which schools prepare and serve food to students. Given this, the Center for Food Safety in Child Nutrition Programs at Kansas State University conducted a study.
Many children across the U.S rely on school meals for nutrition. In 2022, the USDA’s National School Lunch Program served 4.9 billion children. School meals should keep kids healthy and help them reach their full potential by providing the nutrition they need.
The Chef Ann Foundation is a cooperative agreement recipient from the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service. CAF plans to collect additional information from sub-grantees, based on an assessment and data report, which is beyond the information already approved under OMB Control Number: 0584–0512 (expiration date: July 31, 2025).