(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 licensed health care
provider for children under the age of 10 years.
(5) The milk or milk products you serve must
be pasteurized. Children between the ages of 12 and 24 months must receive
whole milk unless you have written authorization from a licensed health care
provider not to serve whole milk.
(6) Children under the age of 12 months must
receive formula or breast milk unless the child's licensed health care provider
authorizes a different diet.
(7)
Before serving a child breast milk you must have approval of the child's DCYF
caseworker, licensed health care provider, and 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 24
hours.
(9) To prevent burns,
formula or breast milk must not be warmed in a microwave oven.
Notes
Wash. Admin.
Code §
110-148-1515
WSR 18-14-078,
recodified as § 110-148-1515, filed 6/29/18, effective 7/1/18
Amended by
WSR
22-11-091, Filed 5/18/2022, effective
6/18/2022
Statutory Authority:
RCW
74.15.010,
74.15.030,
74.15.040,
74.15.090, and
74.13.031. WSR 17-22-039, §
388-148-1515, filed 10/24/17,
effective 11/24/17. Statutory Authority: Chapters 13.34 and 74.13 RCW,
RCW
74.15.030(2),
74.15.311(2),
74.13.032,
13.04.011,
74.13.020,
13.34.030,
74.13.031,
13.34.145,
74.15.311,
74.15.030, and 2013 c 105. WSR
15-01-069, §
388-148-1515, filed 12/11/14,
effective 1/11/15.
