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TheFoodCodeProject.pptxFighting Food Insecurity From The Top
How can the USDA and THE FDA can help through the US Food Code?
United States Department of Agriculture and The Food and Drug Administration
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US Food Insecurity has surpassed 50 Million
During the COVID pandemic, Food Insecurity in America grew from 35 Million to over 50 Million (rts.com).
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What is being done?
SOUP KITCHENS
FOOD PANTRIES
DONATIONS
MONETARY
GROCERS
RESTAURANTS
Locally in Champaign, IL, there is one soup kitchen and a half dozen food pantries and numerous churches receiving donations to pass out to the food insecure.
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Results of What is being done
Daily bread soup kitchen feeds 400 people two meals a day.
Champaign has 30,000 citizens suffering from food insecurity
29,600 citizens are left food insecure and relying on food pantries daily to provide sustenance with no guarantee of availability.
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What is our government doing?
Pure Food and Drug act (1906) – pure ingredients in food
US Food Code provides guidelines to sale of food
Comprehensive resource for food recovery programs
Bill emerson act
Federal food donation act
Us food loss and waste 2030 champions
Results of What Our Government is Doing
The US Food Code provides standards and regulations of handling food from farm to the table.
Bill emerson act provides companies from civil and criminal liability to the foods that are donated to non-profits.
Federal food donation act provides further protection of liability for companies
USDA and EPA(environmental protection agency) encourage a 50% reduction by 2030 by creating The US Food and loss 2030 champions.
NRA(National restaurant Association), EPA, and Feeding America create the Comprehensive resource for food recovery programs.
The 768 page US Food Code has less than one page devoted to food recovery to help the food insecure. The Comprehensive Resource is 51 pages devoted to increasing the food supply to the food insecure.
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Why has Food Insecurity Worsened?
For over 50 years, the USDA and FDA have concentrated their efforts on the safeties of Food from farm to table.
The efforts for food to go from table to salvaged have been minimal.
Even the Comprehensive Resource for Food Recovery Programs is a concentration on building relationships from grocer/restaurant to Food Distribution Organization (FDO).
How can we fix the Problem?
Food Insecurity has worsened while the US and the world places greater amount of food into landfills. In 2020, during the pandemic, the US discarded 40 million tons of food. With 50 million suffering from food insecurity, this equates to 4.38 #s of food a day for each person suffering!!!
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How do we get less of this?
And more of this?
40% of food waste is accounted for my grocers, restaurants and food service companies. If we can reduce half of that, we will create 0.8 #s of food per day for each person suffering from food insecurity.
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How government has helped?
Vermont passed the Universal Recycling Law banning three materials from trash bins
‘Blue bin’ recyclables
Leaf and yard debris
Food scraps
As of July 1st, 2020 every Vermont citizen must keep ALL food scraps out of the trash!!!
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What is next?
FDA separates into Food Administration (FA) and Drug Administration (DA)
FDA is too big
16 board members and 3 with food experience
Only one ‘Food’ board member is Full-Time
DA creates departments that concentrate on different steps of the food process with one concentrating on Salvaging Foods
Education of Restaurant Managers of certification of Salvaged Food.
Can this be done?
The US Food Code currently states that food that has been held warm for four hours must be discarded. Why can food at 3:59 be sold for profit; however, food at 4:00 is not salvageable.
In 2017, the Illinois Department of Health instituted a requirement for one manager in each restaurant/facility to have Allergen Awareness Training. Why can we not train the salvaging of food?
With training, this food could go from being servable to salvageable; creating a considerable amount of food that can help tackle our food insecure problem.
Why the US Gov’t and the Food Code are the answer?
US Government(new DA)
Local solutions are limited and have been unsuccessful
Greater problems require greater solutions
The new DA would have greater resources to help tackle the problem
Making actions into laws guides citizens to act morally and ethically correct.
Churches can only do so much, we need governmental bodies effectively tackling the food insecurity issue.
The Food Code
The Food Code’s guides and standards are part of the problem
If they were a part of the problem, the Food Code can and should be a part of the solution
Governmental guidelines provide methodologies for managers to utilize in the salvaging of food.
Governmental guidelines of the FDOs can increase the quality and the quality of the food prepared as well as the delivery of the foods to those in need.
If Americans could help tackle the Food Insecurity problem from the top down, we could see significant progress in the lives of our neighbors!!!
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