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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 13A.18.12.03" title_num="13A" subtitle_num="18" chapter_num="12" heading="Food Sources.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>A provider shall furnish food at the child care home only if it is wholesome and free from spoilage, filth, or other contamination and obtained from sources that comply with all laws relating to food, food processing, food handling, and food labeling.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A provider may not provide to the children home-canned goods or any other hermetically sealed food prepared in a place other than a registered food processing establishment.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>A provider:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Shall provide only fluid milk and fluid milk products that are:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Pasteurized Grade A;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Except as provided by §C(3) of this regulation, served from the original container; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Not more than 4 days older than the expiration date marked on the original container;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Except as provided at Regulation .06D of this chapter, may use dry milk, dry milk products, or reconstituted dry milk only for cooking purposes; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>For meals and snacks, may serve milk family-style from a pitcher or similar container into which the milk has been poured from the original container.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>