The following article by Jonathan appeared in BioCycle‘s June 2016 issue. — On May 25, the House Agriculture Committee held hearings on the issue of food waste. Based on their tone, committee members sounded determined to use government to prompt change in the food waste status quo. Or at the very least, help remove bureaucratic […]
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Report from Congressional Food Waste Hearing
June 17, 2016 | Posted in Legislation Comments closed
Legislating Date Labels
America’s date label status quo has expired. Lack of a national standard on date labels combined with a jumble of state laws on the subject causes a jumble of confusing terms. A recent Harvard/Hopkins survey (PDF) documented the extent of that confusion. In that haze, we often throw out perfectly good food. That confusion causes […]
May 19, 2016 | Posted in Food Safety, Legislation Comments closed