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.
I would like to thank Chairman Conaway, Ranking Member Peterson, and Members of the House Committee on Agriculture for h...
I think you'll agree it's unconscionable that so much food ends up in landfills.
I introduced a bill last week that has a pretty simple proposal: create two labels--one that says 'expires on' for food ...
The recent Food Date Labeling Act introduced by Rep. Chellie Pingree (H.R. 5298) does just this.
Moving forward, we could align with what most other countries do, and as Representative Pingree discussed, require a sta...
When I tell people that 40 percent of the food that is produced in this country is wasted, they are usually shocked.
we do have 50 million people in this country going hungry.
It is wonderful to see that the USDA and the EPA together have announced a food waste reduction goal.
40 percent of the food, as you mentioned, is wasted in this country.
And when there is confusion around date labeling or how food can be disposed of, with the good Samaritan laws that we ha...