[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
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 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

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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.