by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Dec 9, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary, Students Speaking On...
By Jayce Jimenez, FLPC Student Fall 2024 Nearly 40% of food in the U.S. goes unsold or uneaten. Much of this food ends up in landfills, generating hundreds of millions of metric tons of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas emissions per year. One way that states can address...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Nov 18, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, News
By Susan Elizabeth Turek. Originally published in The Cool Down on November 18, 2024. FLPC’s Emily Broad Leib was interviewed for this story. California is ready to say goodbye to a common labeling phrase at the grocery store that causes residents to waste major...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Nov 13, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary, Students Speaking On...
By Jennifer Weeks, FLPC Student, Fall 2024 The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is a division of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) with the critical job of ensuring the safety of meat, poultry, and egg products in the U.S. While FSIS has...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Oct 21, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, News
By Abigail Buta. Originally published in FoodTank on October 16, 2024. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a bill to standardize food date labels and ban the use of “sell by” dates. California is the first state in the nation to require clear standards to...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Oct 3, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary, Students Speaking On...
By Isabel Yin, FLPC Fall 2024 Student On July 18, California’s legislature filed AJR 10, a resolution advocating for the federal government to enact the Food Date Labeling Act of 2023 (FDLA), with the Secretary of State. The resolution cited several statistics that...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Sep 30, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, News
B Tina Deines. Originally published in The Cool Down on September 27, 2024 Food banks across the world are rescuing food from farmers before it gets thrown out, helping people in need and reducing planet-warming pollution. Scientific American summarized The...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Sep 30, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, News
Originally published in Food Tank. During a Summit hosted by Food Tank and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) during Climate Week NYC, panelists connected the dots between ecosystem health, food waste, and policy levers that can be utilized to protect the...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Sep 23, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, News
By Frida Garza. Originally published in Grist on September 16, 2024. An international team of researchers found that global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, rose faster than ever in the three years ending in 2022. In a new report from the...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Sep 12, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, News
By Geoff Nudelman, originally published in Sustainable Brands on September 9, 2024. Massachusetts-based food-waste tech provider Divert has launched a first-of-its-kind policy tracker that documents new and pending food-waste legislation across the US....
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Aug 28, 2024 | Food Law & Policy
By: Josephine Dudzik and Denae Romero (FLPC 2024 Summer Interns) In June of 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration released its National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics, which provides a list of planned activities for the U.S. to meet...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Aug 14, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, News
Redistributing food before it’s tossed or wasted doesn’t just fight hunger — it also fights climate change. By Frida Garza, originally published in Grist on August 14, 2024. The latest annual impact report from the Global Foodbanking Network — a...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Aug 13, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, News
The tool empowers stakeholders to influence in-progress food waste legislation August 13, 2024 Divert, Inc., an impact technology company on a mission to Protect the Value of Food™, announced today the release of the Food Waste Legislative Tracker to provide...
