by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Feb 13, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON (February 13, 2024) – Over 24 industry supporters have signed the Zero Food Waste Coalition’s open letter urging Congress to support the bipartisan Food Date Labeling Act of 2023 (H.R.3159, S.1484) (FDLA) and encourage them to...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Feb 12, 2024 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary
Late last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a Draft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics. The draft strategy...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Feb 5, 2024
In 2019, the Lahore High Court in Pakistan declared that the government’s inaction in implementing laws and policies to mitigate food loss and waste violated the Constitutional right to food. Join us as we hear from a petitioner in the case, Hafsa Ahmad (LLM...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Oct 26, 2023 | Food Law & Policy, News
The reports affirmed the EPA’s preference for source reduction and lend support for composting over anaerobic digestion, landfilling and incineration. Originally published on WasteDive by Jacob Wallace on October 26, 2023 Advocacy groups in the food waste and...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Oct 26, 2023 | Food Law & Policy, News
In cities across the U.S., hundreds of refrigerators stocked with free food are reducing waste — and methane emissions. Originally published on Grist by Max Graham on October 26, 2023 Dan Zauderer and his in-laws had eaten plenty of pizza one evening in early October,...