[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 7, Volume 4]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 7CFR247.18]



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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE

 

    CHAPTER II--FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 

PART 247_COMMODITY SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PROGRAM--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 247.18  Nutrition education.



    (a) What are the State agency's responsibilities in ensuring that 

nutrition education is provided? The State agency must establish an 

overall nutrition education plan and must ensure that local agencies 

provide nutrition education to participants in accordance with the plan. 

The State agency may allow local agencies to share personnel and 

educational resources with other programs in order to provide the best 

nutrition education possible to participants. The State agency must 

establish an evaluation procedure to ensure that the nutrition education 

provided is effective. The evaluation procedure must



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include participant input and must be directed by a nutritionist or 

other qualified professional. The evaluation may be conducted by the 

State or local agency, or by another agency under agreement with the 

State or local agency.

    (b) What type of nutrition education must the local agency provide? 

The local agency must provide nutrition education that can be easily 

understood by participants and is related to their nutritional needs and 

household situations. The local agency must provide nutrition education 

that includes the following information, which should account for 

specific ethnic and cultural characteristics whenever possible:

    (1) The nutritional value of CSFP foods, and their relationship to 

the overall dietary needs of the population groups served;

    (2) Nutritious ways to use CSFP foods;

    (3) Special nutritional needs of participants and how these needs 

may be met;

    (4) For pregnant and postpartum women, the benefits of 

breastfeeding;

    (5) The importance of health care, and the role nutrition plays in 

maintaining good health; and

    (6) The importance of the use of the foods by the participant to 

whom they are distributed, and not by another person.

    (c) To whom must local agencies provide nutrition education? The 

local agency must make nutrition education available to all adult 

participants and to parents or caretakers of infants and child 

participants. Local agencies are encouraged to make nutrition education 

available to children, where appropriate.

    (d) May CSFP foods be used in cooking demonstrations? Yes. The State 

or local agency, or another agency with which it has signed an 

agreement, may use CSFP foods to conduct cooking demonstrations as part 

of the nutrition education provided to program participants, but not for 

other purposes.