Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 4 - Children's Services and Juvenile Justice
Chapter 50 - Community Care Licensing
Article 5 - Care and Services
7 AAC 50.460 - Nutrition

Universal Citation: 7 AK Admin Code 50.460

Current through August 30, 2024

(a) A facility shall ensure that all snacks and meals meet the child care food program requirements set out in 7 C.F.R. 226.20.

(b) In a residential child care facility, menus, including snacks, must be planned in advance, be posted in an area open to visitors, and reflect actual food served. A residential child care facility providing emergency shelter care is not required to plan menus in advance, but must retain a record of actual food served.

(c) Deleted 7/1/2000.

(d) A residential child care facility providing care for infants shall observe the following requirements for bottle feedings:

(1) bottle feedings may be prepared by the parent or the facility; however, if the facility prepares the bottle feedings, it shall consult with the parent to ensure consistency with the bottle feedings given at home;

(2) an infant must be fed on demand;

(3) a child on bottle feedings
(A) must either be held or fed sitting up or, if unable to sit up, always be held by a caregiver during the feeding; and

(B) may not be permitted to hold or carry its bottle at times other than the feeding; and

(4) bottles may not be propped for a child.

(e) A full time care facility shall attempt to provide ethnic food reflecting the ethnic background of children in care in the facility's menu, including food provided by a child's own family.

(f) A facility shall obtain information concerning any food allergies or special dietary needs of each child and shall plan that child's meals accordingly.

(g) Except for medical reasons, a facility may not deny a meal or snack to a child, force-feed a child, or otherwise coerce a child to eat against the child's will for any reason. Mere encouragement to eat without any element of compulsion is not prohibited.

Authority:AS 44.29.020

AS 47.32.030

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