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Washington Administrative Code (Last Updated: November 23, 2016) |
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Title 388. Social and Health Services, Department of |
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Chapter 388-148. Licensing requirements for child foster homes. |
Section 388-148-1515. What are the requirements regarding food?
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- (1) Food served to children in your care must meet their nutritional and developmental needs, with a variety of options for adequate nutrition and meal enjoyment.(2) Children's cultural needs should also be considered when planning meals.(3) All home-canned foods must be preserved following published procedures and you must be able to provide the printed published procedures that you followed.(4) Before you modify a child's diet, you must obtain written authorization from a physician for children under the age of ten years.(5) The milk or milk products you serve must be pasteurized. Children between the ages of twelve and twenty-four months must receive whole milk unless you have written authorization from a physician not to serve whole milk.(6) Children under the age of twelve months must receive formula or breast milk unless the child's physician authorizes a different diet.(7) Before serving a child breast milk you must have approval of the child's DSHS worker, physician, parent or guardian. If breast milk is provided by anyone other than a baby's biological mother, it must be obtained through a licensed breast milk bank.(8) When you are using bottles to feed infants, you must sterilize and use them according to product standards and commonly acceptable practices. You must refrigerate filled bottles if you do not use them immediately, and you must empty the bottle if not used within twenty-four hours.(9) To prevent burns, formula must not be warmed in a microwave oven in the bottle that will be used for feeding the infant.