Food & Drinking Water Protection

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​Information regarding food and drinking water safety and defense for the U.S. Army and other DOD customers. Information and guidance on food and drinking water safety, inspections, sources, service facilities, and sanitation.


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Commercial Audits
Commercial Audits

Information on commercial food, bottled water, and ice production sanitation facility audits and Worldwide Directory of Sanitarily Approved Food Establishments for Armed Forces Procurement (DoD Approved Food Source List).

Drinking Water
Drinking Water

Information on providing high-quality drinking water and safe recreational waters for DoD installations and deployed forces worldwide.

Food & Drug Recalls
Food & Drug Recalls

Information on all food/drug activities (ALFOODACT) and hazardous recalls of food, bottled water, drugs, medical devices, and health and beauty aids which are suspected or known to be hazardous or tampered with and may be in the DoD system.

Food Safety
Food Safety

Food Safety includes everything from proper food storage, washing hands, preventing cross contamination of foods during preparation, proper cooking temperatures, clean up and disinfection and many steps in between.

Operational Rations
Operational Rations

Information on operational rations inspections pertaining to assembly plants, receipt, and surveillance. OPRATs are Unitized Group Rations (UGRs), Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MREs), Kosher/Halal Meals, Survival Rations, Humanitarian Daily Rations.