School policy regarding food from home?

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Does your school or school district have a policy regarding home-made foods being brought to school to share with others? Such as home-made baked goods for birthdays, or classroom potlucks, or making food to sell at school as a fundraiser?? Some school districts in my state do not allow food to be prepared at home and brought to school to share with others (related to fears of liability due to potential food-poisoning or allergies). I was wondering if this type of policy is common??:eek:

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Specializes in School Nursing and Sports Medicine.

Our school doesn't allow birthday celebrations in school. As for fund raising activities, the seller are requested to let people know if there are nuts or other common allergen in their product. If not possible, teachers who handle students with known allergies should strictly keep an eye on them and report any untoward signs and symptoms.

Our cafeteria are not allowed to serve anything with peanuts since as we all know it is the most common source of allergic reaction.

We have lunch supervisors who attends to the students during recess. As much as possible they discourage sharing of food. But since kids are kids, those who have allergies are briefed during the beginning of the semester. :)

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

We don't have any specific restrictions on food brought from home beyond requesting that it be on the healthy side. Students of children with nut allergies have the responsibility to send in safe snacks for their child and teach their child how to make wise choices in accepting foods that does not come from a factory with the ingredients printed out. Of course we also request that parents bringing in treats refrain from using peanut products, but that isn't always a guarantee.

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Specializes in OB/GYN, Peds, School Nurse, DD.

We are a peanut free school. Our cafeteria manager makes sure we don't have products that contain nuts and students are not allowed to bring nuts or peanut butter. Of course, I'm sure that a few slip by and we can't really check every single snack for "processed with nuts" label. Parents are encouraged to meet with the cafeterian manager to discuss food allergies and ways to accomodate their children.

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