TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE NOTE
No. 2005-36
School Business Services
FOOD AND NUTRITION MANAGEMENT
Contact: Martha Brown
John L. Winn, Commissioner
(850)
245-9292
SC 205-9292
DATE: June
8
, 2005
TO:
Sponsors of the National School Lunch Program
FROM:
Diane Santoro, Administrator
SUBJECT:
Ninth Release of the Child Nutrition (CN) Database
The ninth release of the Child Nutrition Database (CN9) is available as of March 16, 2005, to
computer software companies that develop the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
approved Nutrient Standard Menu Planning Software Programs, for the purpose of updating their
existing software. The CN9 release contains over 2,500 new or revised items for a total of 15,595
food items, including about 12,500 processed foods.
The ninth release can be downloaded from the Healthy School Meals Resource System website at
http://schoolmeals.nal.usda.gov by clicking on the “Approved Software” icon on the left-hand side of
the page. This web location also contains the System Components and File Formats
document that
defines the structural design of the CN9 Database.
Please note that all of the USDA recipes have been updated. The update includes the addition of five
new recipes (D-30A Vegetable Pizza, D-52 Vegetable Quesadilla, E-24 Hummus, F-06 Vegetable
Stromboli, and F-09 Vegetable Wraps) and the removal of two recipes (C-34 Baked Bananas and F-9
Gyro).
The CN9 Database is an integral part of both the Nutrient Standard and Assisted Nutrient Standard
Menu Planning Systems. We expect the USDA approved software companies to incorporate the
CN9 Database into their software and distribute the new version of the software to their current users.
Anyone who does not receive an update should contact his or her software company. If you learn
that a software company is not updating
its
software to include the new CN9 Database, please
contact us by June 16, 2005.
If you have any questions, please contact Martha Brown at (800) 504-6609 or Martha.brown@fldoe.org.
DS/IW
Food and Nutrition Management is committed to facilitating quality nutrition programs that support the growth and development of Florida’s Children.
