Food Assistance for Disaster Relief Law and Legal Definition
Food Assistance for Disaster Relief is a Federal assistance provided by provided the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)’s Food Distribution Division that has the primary responsibility of supplying food to disaster relief organizations such as the Red Cross and the Salvation Army for mass feeding or household distribution.
Disaster food assistance is provided in the following three ways:
a. providing USDA Foods to State agencies for distribution to shelters and other mass feeding sites;
b. providing USDA Foods to State agencies for distribution directly to households in need in certain limited situations; and
c. authorizing State agencies to issue Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP) benefits.
Legal Definition list
- Food and Nutrition Service [FNS]
- Food and Energy Security Act
- Food and Drug Law
- Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act
- Food and Drug Administration
- Food Assistance for Disaster Relief
- Food Bank
- Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations [FDPIR]
- Food Hazard [Food and Drugs]
- Food Libel
- Food Licenses
Related Legal Terms
- 1040 Form
- A Fortiori
- A Fortiori Argument
- Absent Uniformed Services Voter
- Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding [USIP]
- Acceptance for Value
- Access to Classified Information (Military)
- Accessory Before The Fact
- Accidental Radiation Occurrence [Food and Drugs]
- Accompanying the Armed Forces outside the United States
