I think you'll agree it's unconscionable that so much food ends up in landfills.

we do have 50 million people in this country going hungry.

40 percent of the food, as you mentioned, is wasted in this country.

The recent Food Date Labeling Act introduced by Rep. Chellie Pingree (H.R. 5298) does just this.

Our idea is to ask the USDA and the FDA to work together to create a label, one that says expires on, for those foods that really do have a safety issue.

We actually submitted a bill last week with Senator Blumenthal about date labeling to try to bring some sensibility into this.

It is wonderful to see that the USDA and the EPA together have announced a food waste reduction goal.

When I tell people that 40 percent of the food that is produced in this country is wasted, they are usually shocked.

I would like to thank Chairman Conaway, Ranking Member Peterson, and Members of the House Committee on Agriculture for holding a hearing on food waste and for inviting me to speak today.

There is certainly no single way to go about solving this problem, and I know as you dig deeper into it today and you hear from the wonderful panel that you have chosen, you will start to hear that it is something we have to face on all…

support the Food Recovery Act, introduced by Representative Pingree.

Moving forward, we could align with what most other countries do, and as Representative Pingree discussed, require a standard quality label on foods where freshness is a concern, and a standard safety label on foods that actually carry a…

Making sure that there are Federal funds available to municipalities who want to do that is another part of this.

Recognizing the extent of this problem, USDA and EPA announced the first food waste reduction goal last year--a 50 percent reduction by 2030.

I introduced a bill last week that has a pretty simple proposal: create two labels--one that says 'expires on' for food that really is unsafe to eat after a certain date, and another that says 'best if used by' for everything else.

The Food Recovery Act introduced by Rep. Chellie Pingree (H.R. 4184) tackles food waste from a variety of angles.

In my own state, we have a supermarket chain that is also committed to zero food waste.

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