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Abstract: Areas in USDA's Child Care Food Program in which program management could be improved and areas affected by recent legislation are identified. Of 131 meals tested at 80 selected feeding sites, 81 meals at 52 sites did not meet USDA's minimum nutritional standards for weight or contain required meal components. Other unacceptable services and financial accountability deficiencies also were discovered. Recommendations were made to the Secretary of Agriculture to direct the administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service to establish an effective monitoring system for feeding site conditions and to secure compliance with USDA meal standards. USDA responses to the study recommendations are discussed. USDA accepted GAO's general recommendation that the program management be improved at all program levels. (wz).
Good nutrition is important to the health of infants, children, and adults. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Child and Adult Care Food Program is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture to provide reimbursement to care providers for nutritious meals served to eligible, non-residential children in child care centers, family day care homes, homeless shelters, after school at-risk programs, Head Start, and outside-school-hours programs, as well as meals for older adults in adult day care centers.