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Certification and Compliance of the New Meal Pattern: What You Need to Know to Receive Your 6 Cents

The School Nutrition Foundation (SNF) in partnership with the US Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service’s Office of Child Nutrition will be offering a FREE webinar on Wednesday, May 16th from 2:00-3:15 pm EDT entitled: “Certification and Compliance of the New Meal Pattern: What You Need to Know to Receive Your 6 Cents." If you have already registered, you do not need to register again. There is a limit of 1000 participants for this session.

In this webinar, Cindy Long, Director, and Jessica Saracino, Program Analyst, both of the Child Nutrition division of the USDA Food and Nutrition Services, will give an overview of the new certification and compliance guidelines for the proposed six cent rule under the new meal pattern requirements. They will also explain what documentation is required from school food authorities and the steps that state agencies must take to ensure compliance.

OBJECTIVES:

The learning objectives of this webinar are:

Gain a general understanding of the responsibilities of school food authorities and State agencies in the certification process for compliance with the new meal pattern requirements
Learn what documentation is required from school food authorities for certification of compliance with the new meal pattern requirements
Learn what steps State agencies must take to ensure compliance with the new meal pattern requirements