Meal Counting and Claiming for School Nutrition Programs

Monitoring Forms

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations 7 CFR 210.8(a)(1) and 7 CFR 220.11(d)(1) require that prior to February 1 of every school year, each school food authority (SFA) with more than one school must perform at least one on-site review of the meal counting and claiming system and the readily observable general areas of review identified under 7 CFR 210.18(h) in each school operating the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and 50 percent of schools operating the School Breakfast Program (SBP) under its jurisdiction. Schools are defined by 7 CFR 210.2 and include residential child care institutions (RCCIs)