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ResetResource | Policy Memos
    FD-152: Discontinuance of the High Security Seal Requirement for USDA Foods Deliveries
        The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will discontinue the requirement for vendors to use high security seals to secure USDA Foods deliveries as of July 1, 2023.
      04/05/2023
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2019-0029
    Management of Donated Food Inventories at Processors
        This memorandum addresses inventory limitations and requirements that USDA Foods processors must follow when manufacturing processed end products for use in child nutrition programs.
          FD-064
    04/02/2019
    Resource | Guidance Documents
    Instruction 709-5: Shipment and Receipt of USDA Foods
        This instruction establishes the general standards and procedures that the state distributing agency, Indian Tribal Organization, or other consignee must follow in receiving shipments of USDA Foods, and conveys established responsibilities for other entities such as USDA Foods vendors and carriers.
          FNS Instruction 709-5
    03/13/2019
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2019-0013
    USDA Foods Processing Program: Cancellation of Policy Memoranda
        In order to update and streamline policy guidance for the USDA Foods Processing Program, FNS is cancelling policy memoranda FD-009, FD-025, FD-130, FD-102, FD-030, FD-038, FD-048, FD-103, and FD-108. The guidance provided by these memoranda is outdated and has been superseded by the Final Rule: Revisions and Clarifications in Requirements for the Processing of Donated Foods, which was published on May 1, 2018.
          FD-145
    02/27/2019
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2018-0003
    Market Basket Analysis when Procuring Program Goods and Modifying Contracted-For Product Lists
        This memorandum provides guidance to state distributing agencies and recipient agencies on the use of market basket analysis in procuring processed end products for USDA Foods in Schools and commercial goods for the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Summer Food Service Program, and Child and Adult Care Food Program.
          FD-144, SP04 SFSP01 CACFP04-2018
    01/18/2018
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2017-0064
    Donated Food Storage, Distribution, and Product Dating
        This memorandum is meant to provide clarification and guidance on policies and procedures for donated food storage and distribution as they relate to product dating.
          FD-107
    11/21/2017
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0091
    Signature Block Removal from Summary End Product Data Schedules
        The purpose of this policy memorandum is to clarify state distributing agency (SDA) requirements related to approval of end product data schedules (EPDS) and summary end product data schedules (SEPDS) and provide an explanation for the removal of signature blocks from the SEPDS A and B templates.
          FD-140
    12/02/2016
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0090
    Value of USDA Donated Foods for Audits: Revised
        The purpose of this policy memorandum is to clarify the options available to state distributing agencies or recipient agencies in assigning value to USDA donated foods for audit purposes.
          FD-104
    12/02/2016
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0056
    Alternative Value Pass-Through System Pilot Project under the Department of Defense Fresh Program
        The revised policy memo requires supplemental reporting from processors and requires state verification of credits provided by the processor to the SFA. Processors wishing to continue participation in the pilot will have to sign the attached revised NPA amendment to extend their participation in the pilot.
          FD-137
    08/22/2016
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2014-0085
    Cancellation of Policy Memorandum FD-085, Nonfat Dry Milk Processing
        Policy Memorandum FD-085, Nonfat Dry Milk Processing is cancelled. The Commodity Credit Corporation no longer has nonfat dry milk available for donation as a bulk commodity for reprocessing and all inventory of this product has been depleted.
          FD-136
    12/30/2014

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