FNS Documents & Resources

This part announces regulations under which the Secretary of Agriculture shall carry out the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program.

This part announces regulations under which the Secretary of Agriculture shall carry out the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. The Child Nutrition Act of 1966 states in part that the Congress finds that substantial numbers of pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women, infants and young children from families with inadequate income are at special risk with respect to their physical and mental health by reason of inadequate nutrition or health care, or both.

This page contains questions and answers on the food safety provisions of the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004.

Notice is hereby given that the National Academy of Sciences' (NAS) Institute of Medicine (IOM), through its Food and Nutrition Board (FNB), will conduct the second of two public meetings to obtain additional perspectives about the scientific basis for the nutrition risk criteria used in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).