Food Waste Focus

(This article recently appeared in the July 6, 2010 On-line Issue of Food Management magazine)
This Practice Can be Part of a Recycling Program, But Many Restrictions Apply.

According to the FDA, kitchen waste may be fed to livestock, but there are regulations and restrictions that apply, and a food service establishment that wants to do this [...]

We recently ran across an article in Healthcare Design magazine titled: “Where does your facility fall on the greening spectrum?”
Although this article focused on healthcare (regulated medical waste, preferred purchasing, etc.), they spoke about a Practice Greenhealth study and their efforts to break ‘greening’ down into specific categories.  By doing this it helps the operations [...]

The New York Times recently wrote about a critical food waste sanitation problem that has developed in Egypt.  The background is that the Egyptian government required all pigs in the country to be slaughtered this past spring in a (misguided) effort to reduce swine flu risk. What they failed to realize was that these pigs were playing a [...]

Long ago, many restaurants and foodservice operations collected food in “pig buckets” and sent it to nearby swine farms to feed the animals.
However, the Swine Health Protection Act (SHPA) was passed by Congress in 1980.  The act regulates any food waste containing meat that is served to swine:
In accordance with the SHPA and Federal regulations, food [...]

San Francisco just passed one of the toughest municipal recycling ordinances in America. Â
Starting this Fall, all residences and businesses will be required to separate food waste for composting.   This is likely to be the direction that many municipalities will pursue in the months and years to come. Â
Read about the details in the SF Chronicle.