Sunday 7 April 2013

USDA - Food and Nutrition Service


FNS USDA Logo
United States Department of Agriculture's FNS is engaged in school meals, WIC and SNAP / Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to remove obesity as well as hunger in USA through these programs. Americans can follow the USDA Nutrition through social media pages on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Blog or email newsletters. 


USDA FNS Website is a great portal for users providing information and services by US government. Users can contact and ask an expert for various nutrition, SNAP related issues. 

FNS educational activities include Choose MyPlate, WIC Works, Supertracker, SNAP-Ed, FNS Core Nutrition Message, Child Nutrition Training Materials, USDA Foods School Resources, Nutrition Standards for School Meals, Serving Up MyPlate A Yummy Curriculum, Team Nutrition, Tribal consultation, Farm to school, ARRA, Chefs move to schools, Ending childhood hunger and HUSSC. Online users can access, read and know about these activities of FNS. These initiatives have been started to improve health and remove hunger in the USA. 

Online tools on the FNS website include SNAP Retailer locator, Disaster Assistance, Health Access Locator, WIC Pre Screening Eligibility Tool, Report Nutrition Assistance Fraud, SNAP Pre Screening Eligibility Tool for recipients. Online tools for the healthier lifestyle from FNS include Supertracker, ChooseMyPlate, Recipe Finder etc.

If you want to get involved in various activities, projects and initiatives by USDS FNS then you can engaged in serving meals, be a partner, connect people, educate, get funding, view webinars, access data and join others.

The website has also been developed in Espanol for Spanish users. 

Users can get the contact details and regional FNS offices across United States from FNS website. People looking for USDA FNS careers and jobs can go to career page. One can apply for various jobs through official website or government jobs updates via USAJobs.gov. Recent vacancies in FNS are program specialist in multiple locations and Social Science Policy Analyst.

Website: http://www.fns.usda.gov
Mid Atlantic Regional Office:
Mercer Corporate Park
300 Corporate Boulevard
Robbinsville, NJ 08691-1518
Phone: 609-259-5025

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