As director of a moderate sized child care, you are constantly reviewing the center's food service policies and procedures. As with all of the center's policies and procedures, you periodically review them to make sure they are up to date with the latest nutritional and safety findings and are developmentally appropriate. Because of a high incidence of allergies, you have decided on a new policy to eliminate all peanut products from the center's menu.

In one or two short para., discuss the following: How you will go about developing, implementing and administering this new policy on being a peanut-free facility? Discuss such considerations as:

• What are all the steps you will take, who needs to be informed?
• Who can you consult with in this process?
• In what ways might you get feedback from staff, parents, board members, or others when you are drafting the policy? 
• Finally, what methods will you use to announce the policy, how will you get the word out, and let everyone know about it.