Program Guidance
General Information Sheet #2: Availability of Food Safety Materials
Provides information on the availability of food safety materials from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for use by food service employees and teachers.
General Information Sheet #15: Food Safety Questions and Answers
USDA guidance on the food safety provisions of the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 (Public Law 104-265).
Management Bulletin 03-103:
Food Safety Recall Notification System Now Available
provides information regarding the new rapid alert food safety notification system offered by the California Department of Health Services (DHS), Food and Drug Branch.
Management Bulletin 00-411: Food Safety Campaign
The USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has launched a new food safety campaign designed to promote the use of thermometers.
Raw Sprouts
Advisory against serving raw sprouts in child nutrition programs.
Outside Resources
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
This is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' site for the
CDC.
Food
& Nutrition Information Center
This site provides a directory to credible, accurate, and practical resources
for consumers, nutrition and health professionals, educators,
and government personnel.
Food-Safe Schools Action Guide
This is the site for the National Coalition of Food Safe Schools and provides school food safety information and resources. A food-safe school action guide is also available at this site and contains tools to help schools build support for food-safe school programs, such as a “how-to” guide and video, motivational PowerPoint® presentation and administrator's briefing brochure, topical in-depth modules and more!
Food
Safety
This site is a gateway to federal food safety information.
Healthy Kids Resource Center Food Safe Schools
This site provides information about the Food-Safe School Initiative. This Initiative is about preventing food borne illness throughout the school community. It utilizes the coordinated school health program approach to ensure food safety and improve the capacity of schools to prevent foodborne illness.
International Food Information Council (IFIC)
This site communicates science-based information on food safety and nutrition to health and nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials, and others providing information to consumers. IFIC is supported primarily by the broad-based food, beverage and agricultural industries with the purpose of bridging the gap between science and communications through partnerships to assist in translating research into understandable and useful information.
USDA, Food and Nutrition Services Food Safety
This site provides information on food safety and security related to the federal Child Nutrition and other federal assistance programs administered by the United States Department of Agriculture.
