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Child Care Training and Resource Kit

Food Safety

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Child Care Training and Resource Kit – Food Safety - Handouts

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Infant Food Safety Policy

This policy is based on our love for babies and out of respect for the trust you have placed in us. Our staff does everything we can to provide for the comfort and safety of your baby. We take special care to handle all infant foods in a way that reduces the risk of food-borne illness. Some food-borne diseases can cause vomiting and/or diarrhea and may result in dehydration, which is especially dangerous for infants.

To reduce the risk of food-borne illness we do the following: 1. Our staff follows sanitary practices when preparing formula. All staff wash their hands before handling breast-milk, infant formula or food. We clean and sanitize all food preparation surfaces and use only clean and sanitized items, e.g. bottles, bowls, utensils.

2. Bottles prepared at daycare will be mixed and fed to your infant right away, that is: "mixed

on demand." 3. Breast-milk or formula will not be kept at room temperature for more than one hour. This is done to prevent the growth of bacteria and reduce the risk of illness for your baby. 4. All breast-milk and formula in bottles and opened baby food jars are kept refrigerated at 40* or less. 5. All unused breast-milk and formula in bottles will be discarded or sent home after 12 hours.

6. Frozen breast-milk, in reasonable amounts, can be stored at our facility, with the approval of the infant supervisor/center director. We warm or thaw breast-milk in lukewarm water.

7. We treat baby food in a way that reduces the risk of illness for your baby. We serve baby food from a dish with a clean spoon (so saliva will not get in the jar). We only keep opened baby food for 24 hours.

8. We do not use a microwave to heat breast-milk, infant formula, or baby food. A microwave heats foods unevenly...