FNS Documents & Resources | Food and Nutrition Service

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Title	Comment Period End Date
Generic Clearance to Conduct Formative Research or Development of Nutrition Education and Promotion Materials and Related Tools and Grants for FNS Population Groups	03/19/2026
Proposed Information Collection Comment Request: Study Classifying and Measuring Household Food Waste	03/24/2026
Information Collection: OMB Generic Clearance for the Annual Survey of School Food Authorities	03/24/2026

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Resource | Policy Update of Food Crediting in the Child Nutrition Programs

This memorandum informs stakeholders on the progress made by FNS in updating the food crediting system for all child nutrition programs. This is a first step towards improving the crediting system to best address today’s evolving food and nutrition environment and meet the needs of those operating and benefiting from the CNPs.

12/04/2018

Resource | Final Rule Final Rule: Codification of Poultry Substitution and Modification of Commodity Inventory Controls for Recipient Agencies

This two-part rule allows limited poultry substitution and full substitution of all other commodities except for beef and pork; and reduces current commodity recordkeeping and reporting requirements for some local level recipient agencies, such as schools.

10/23/2002