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.
Healthy Eating Index scores range from 0 to 100 and are a measure of diet quality used to assess how well a set of foods aligns with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. A higher score is ideal. The FDPIR Food Package scores an 84. This is higher than the average U.S. diet, which scores a 59.
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.
Meeting and conference call notes from the FDPIR Food Package Review Work Group.
USDA Foods from Farm to Plate e-letters feature resources, news, and best practices, rotating our monthly focus between a trio of program-specific e-letters.