Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428943129
Category : Food handling
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
School meal programs: few instances of foodborne outbreaks reported, but opportunities exist to enhance outbreak data and food safety practices : report to Congressional requesters
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428943129
Category : Food handling
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
School Meal Programs
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food handling
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Threats to Food Safety
Author: Fred C. PampelPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438124481
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Presents an overview of potential threats on food supplies, new techniques to insure food safety, a chronology of important food related events, and a complete annotated bibliography.
School meal programs revenue and expense information from selected states : report to Congressional requesters
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428943110
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
School Meal Programs
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foodborne diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
School Meal Programs
Author: Lisa ShamesPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437985432
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Through its commodity program, the U.S. Dept. of Agr. (USDA) provides commodity foods at no cost to schools taking part in the national school meals programs. Commodities include raw ground beef, cheese, poultry, and fresh produce. The commodity program has taken steps designed to reduce microbial contamination that can result in severe illness. This report reviews: (1) the extent to which the program's purchasing specifications related to microbial contamination differ from fed. regulations; (2) the extent to which specifications for raw ground beef differ from those imposed by some other large purchasers; and (3) examples of schools' practices to help ensure that food is not contaminated. Illustrations. This is a print on demand report.
Using American Community Survey Data to Expand Access to the School Meals Programs
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309257204
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation's food security safety net, providing free or low-cost meals to millions of schoolchildren each day. To qualify their children each year for free or reduced-price meals, many families must submit applications that school officials distribute and review. To reduce this burden on families and schools and to encourage more children to partake of nutritious meals, USDA regulations allow school districts to operate their meals programs under special provisions that eliminate the application process and other administrative procedures in exchange for providing free meals to all students enrolled in one or more school in a district. FNS asked the National Academies' Committee on National Statistics and Food and Nutrition Board to convene a panel of experts to investigate the technical and operational feasibility of using data from the continuous American Community Survey (ACS) to estimate students eligible for free and reduced-price meals for schools and school districts. The ACS eligibility estimates would be used to develop "claiming percentages" that, if sufficiently accurate, would determine the USDA reimbursements to districts for schools that provided free meals to all students under a new special provision that eliminated the ongoing base-year requirements of current provisions. Using American Community Survey Data to Expand Access to the School Meals Program was conducted in two phases. It first issued an interim report (National Research Council, 2010), describing its planned approach for assessing the utility of ACS-based estimates for a special provision to expand access to free school meals. This report is the final phase which presents the panel's findings and recommendations.
School Meal Programs
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National school lunch program
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
School Meal Programs
Author: Kay E. BrownPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437923909
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Over the past few years, several food recalls, such as for beef and peanut products, have affected schools. It is especially important that recalls affecting schools be carried out efficiently and effectively because young children have a higher risk of complications from food-borne illnesses. This report determined how federal agencies: (1) notified states and schools about food recalls; (2) advised states and schools about disposal and reimbursement of recalled food; and (3) ensured that recalls were being carried out effectively. To do this, the author reviewed and analyzed relevant documents and interviewed officials from 23 school districts that had experience with at least one of 4 recent cases involving the safety of food in the school lunch program.
Developing and Evaluating Methods for Using American Community Survey Data to Support the School Meals Programs
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309161568
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
The National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation's food security safety net, providing free or low-cost meals to millions of school-age children each day. Under the most commonly adopted provisions, USDA reimburses districts for meals served on the basis of data collected in a "base year," during which applications are taken. After 3 or 4 years, applications must be taken again to establish new base-year data, unless the district provides evidence that local conditions have not changed. A special provision that does not require applications to be taken every few years would reduce burden, be more attractive to school districts, and potentially increase student participation by expanding access to free meals. To support the development of such a provision, the Food and Nutrition Service asked the National Academies to study the technical and operational issues that arise in using data from the American Community Survey (ACS)-a new continuous survey replacing the long-form survey of the decennial census-to obtain estimates of students who are eligible for free and reduced-price meals for schools and school districts. Such estimates would be used to develop "claiming percentages" that, if sufficiently accurate, would determine federal reimbursements to districts for the schools that provide free meals to all students under a new special provision that eliminates the base-year requirements of current provisions.