Food banks, TEFAP fresh produce, surplus donation, food date labels, food waste grants, and voluntary food waste certification.
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“Federal agencies should teach the public what quality dates and discard dates mean so shoppers understand the difference between freshness guidance and advice not to eat the food.”
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“USDA should update food bank and commodity distribution programs and support efforts to help seniors, Tribal communities, people in isolated areas, and other communities get healthier food.”
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“EPA should run a competitive grant program to help reduce U.S. food waste by half by 2030, and Congress should be able to provide up to $650 million a year for that work through 2033.”
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“Food waste certification should recognize organizations that waste less food, donate safe extra food to nonprofits, and send unusable leftovers to options such as animal feed, anaerobic digestion, or composting instead of disposal.”
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“Food waste grant recipients should have to collect data, report results to EPA, and in some cases publish monthly or quarterly updates, while EPA publishes yearly progress reports on the grant program.”
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“EPA should consider spreading food waste grants across different places and project types, helping public programs with food waste capacity needs, and prioritizing projects in communities facing disproportionate health or environmental harms.”
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“Food companies that use date labels should use “BEST If Used By” for freshness dates and “USE By” for discard dates, with short “BB” or “UB” labels only when the package is too small for the full phrase.”
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“States and local governments should not be able to ban selling or donating food only because a best-quality date has passed, but they could still ban sale or donation after a use-by date.”
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“USDA should decide whether a state emergency food agency may use part of its TEFAP food allocation for DoD Fresh produce, instead of letting states use that option automatically.”
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“USDA should run a voluntary program that lets farms, food businesses, schools, governments, and other food-related organizations apply for federal certification when they document work to reduce food loss and waste.”
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