The USDA, EPA and FDA have signed an agreement to reduce food loss in the U.S.
Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says the collaboration will align each agency’s efforts to educate Americans on the impacts of reducing food loss and waste.
“Administrator Wheeler has an incentive to keep food out of landfills and there are much better uses for them, Dr. Gottlieb’s challenge is to keep us safe and healthy and educate us on how long we can store that food safely and use it in that way, and the USDA has an incentive over post-harvest food waste,” he says.
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