# Revisions and Clarifications in Requirements for the Processing of Donated Foods
> **Food and Nutrition Service** · Final rule. · Published 2018-05-01 · Effective 2018-07-02 · 83 FR 18913
## Document
- **Document number:** 2018-09168
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Nutrition Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 83 FR 18913
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 250
- **Publication date:** 2018-05-01
- **Effective date:** 2018-07-02
- **USDA docket:** FNS-2017-0001
## Abstract

This rule revises and clarifies requirements for the processing of donated foods in order to: Incorporate successful processing options tested in demonstration projects into the regulations, ensure accountability for donated foods provided for processing, increase program efficiency and integrity, and support vendor and State operability. The rule requires multi-State processors to enter into National Processing Agreements to process donated foods into end products, permits processors to substitute commercially purchased beef and pork of U.S. origin and of equal or better quality for donated beef and pork, and streamlines and modernizes oversight of inventories of donated foods at processors. The rule also revises regulatory provisions in plain language, to make them easier to read and understand.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/05/01/2018-09168/revisions-and-clarifications-in-requirements-for-the-processing-of-donated-foods)
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