Letter to State Directors Regarding Infant Formula
Letter to reiterate the flexibilities that USDA has made available to all WIC state agencies and to urge all states to take additional action to make it easier for families to get the formula they need.
USDA Foods General Recommendations: Handwashing, Cleaning, and Disinfecting for Household Program Operators
These handouts provide general recommendations on handwashing, cleaning, and disinfecting, to operators of USDA Foods household programs including CSFP, TEFAP, and FDPIR.
Best Practices to Safely Handle and Store USDA Foods at Home
A set of three handouts on best practices to help you safely handle and store USDA foods at home.
Food Safety Enforcement and Inspection Actions and Terminology
This document provides an overview of basic food safety enforcement terminology used by FSIS that may impact school distributing agencies, school food authorities, and processors of USDA-regulated foods, including meat, poultry, and egg products.
USDA Foods Recall Preparedness & Response Checklist
This resource provides a checklist of the communication responsibilities related to recalls of USDA Foods before, during and after a recall.
Food-Safe Schools Action Guide
The Action Guide is intended to help you coordinate all aspects of food safety to create a culture of food safety. Think of it as an umbrella that covers many important areas of food safety that need to be considered when serving food in schools. The Action Guide identifies Federal food safety requirements that schools are required to meet, as well as other important areas that should be addressed to have a top-notch food safety program. The Action Guide also identifies the roles that others (e.g., teachers, parents, school nurses) in the school community play in the school’s food safety efforts.
The Food Allergy Book
English and Spanish versions of, "The Food Allergy Book: What School Employees Need to Know". Written by NEA Healthy Futures, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the National Education Association.
Guidance for School Food Authorities: Developing a School Food Safety Program Based on the Process Approach to HACCP Principles
This document serves as USDA guidance for the implementation of HACCP-based food safety programs in schools participating in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) or the School Breakfast Program (SBP).
Creating Your School Food Defense Plan
Food defense is having measures in place to reduce the chances of someone intentionally contaminating the food used in your foodservice operation in order to harm children and cause panic, alarm, and distrust in our food supply.
Food Safety Tips for School Gardens
The practices addressed in this document will help program operators enhance the safety of fruits and vegetables grown in school gardens.