by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Mar 5, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary
The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) has submitted comments to USDA FSIS and FDA, urging federal standardization of food date labels to reduce food waste, improve food recovery, and streamline industry practices. Concerns stem from the current...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Feb 27, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, News
In a time of elevated food prices, more U.S. consumers are discarding edible food prematurely due to misperceptions of food date labels. Thursday, February 27, 2025 – U.S. consumers report discarding food near or past the label date even more often than they did...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Feb 19, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, News
By Arlene Karidis, Freelance writer. Originally published in Waste360 on February 18, 2025 About $1 trillion per year worth of food is either wasted at the retail or consumer level or lost before reaching either of those destinations. Most of it gets landfilled....
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Feb 12, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, News
Pioneers in the Fight Against Food Waste Evaluates Promising Waste Deterrence Policies in South Korea, France, and Peru For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 12, 2025 – The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN),...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Jan 29, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, News
By Gilly Smith. Originally published on Food Planet Prize A new approach to redirect global food waste to feed its inhabitants could also mitigate some of the biggest challenges of climate change. The Global Food Donation Policy Atlas, known simply as The Atlas,...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Jan 24, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary
April Love joined the Food Law and Policy Clinic in January 2024 as a Clinical Instructor. Prior to joining FLPC, she served as the Policy Analyst for the Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy Research Center at Alcorn State University (The Policy...
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 31, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, News
By Maya Deutchman. Originally published in Food Tank. A new Food Waste Legislative Tracker is now available to help people understand food waste policy issues across the United States. The Tracker was developed by Divert, the Zero Food Waste...
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 18, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary
By Charmaine Yap, Legislative Assistant, Singapore Parliament The Good Samaritan Food Donation Bill, passed in the Singapore Parliament in August 2024, is a landmark piece of legislation in Singapore that provides liability protection for food donors. Under this law,...
