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Welcome to the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) web site! CSFP works to improve the health of low-income pregnant and breastfeeding women, other new mothers up to one year postpartum, infants, children up to age six, and elderly people at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA commodity foods. It provides food and administrative funds to States to supplement the diets of these groups.  

	About CSFP
	Eligibility Requirements & How to Apply
	CSFP Commodity Fact Sheets/Recipes
	CSFP Foods Available for FY 2004
	CSFP Program Fact Sheet/FAQs
	CSFP Policy Memorandum Database
	Elderly Income Guidelines
	Guidance Memorandum: Dual Participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP).
	Memorandum dated August 12, 2004 to all FNS Regional Directors entitled, Discontinuing Liquid Concentrate Infant Formula in the Commodity Supplemental Food Program
	More CSFP Resources (program regulations, reports, forms, fish advisories for women of child-bearing age and children on selecting and eating fish to avoid exposure to harmful effects of mercury)
	Related Links
	Civil Rights' "And Justice For All" Posters
	Fish Facts: Guidance on Methylmercury in Fish - For Pregnant Women, Women Who May Become Pregnant, Nursing Mothers, and Young Children.  Note: The Environmental Protection Agency web site www.epa.gov/ost/fish/ provides additional guidance on fish consumption as well as a brochure with advice for pregnant women and young children called What You Need to Know About Mercury in Fish and Shellfish, publication number EPA-823-F-04-009 (English) or EPA-823-F-04-010 (Spanish). Free bulk orders for this brochure may be requested by calling EPA at 1-800-490-9198.

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