Food Waste Focus

The European Union designated September 15 2011 as EU Food Safety Day and decided to focus the 2011 observance of this annual event on food waste prevention and minimization, noting there are strong links between food safety and food waste prevention: Often there are strong synergies between ensuring food safety and limiting food waste. For [...]

Food waste is a major issue in the United States. According to A.T. Kearney, 80 of the 900 billion pounds of food produced in the U.S. end up in the trash can. This amount of food waste is enough to fill 320,000 jumbo jets every year. Of the 80 billion pounds of waste, 65% comes [...]