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Ширкати озуқавории солим бо 10 мутахассиси пешбари соҳаи тандурустӣ барои ҳалли даъвоҳои гумроҳкунанда дар бораи маҳсулоти хӯрокворӣ ҳамроҳ шуд.
Агар шумо гузаргоҳҳои марказии мағозаи хӯроквории худро аз назар гузаронед ва танҳо ба даъвоҳо дар тамғаҳои ғизо назар афканед, чунин ба назар мерасад, ки ҳар як хӯроки бастабандишударо "солим" ҳисобидан мумкин аст. Ғалладонагиҳои қандӣ дорои "даҳҳо витаминҳо ва минералҳои муҳим" мебошанд ва чиптаҳои картошка "бе глютен" ном доранд ва ҳардуи онҳо метавонанд харидоронро гумон кунанд, ки онҳо интихоби солиманд. Гарчанде ки дар гузаргоҳҳои марказӣ имконоти солим мавҷуданд, муайян кардани онҳо бо сабаби танзими кунунии FDA оид ба даъвоҳои маводи ғизоӣ душвортар хоҳад буд.
Дар бораи он маълумот гиред, ки саломатӣ ҳоло чӣ маъно дорад.
Барои навиштани мақолаҳои олӣ ва дастурҳои болаззат ва солим ба номаи рӯзномаи мо обуна шавед.
KIND бо як гурӯҳи коршиносони пешбари соҳаи тандурустӣ ва ғизо дар пешниҳоди дархости шаҳрвандон субҳи имрӯз якҷоя шуда, аз FDA даъват кард, ки қоидаҳои мавҷудаи талабот ба маводи ғизоиро навсозӣ кунад. Дар ариза мушкилот бо танзими кунунӣ баррасӣ карда мешавад, ки он ба миқдори ғизоии маҳсулот ба ҷои сифати умумии ғизо таъкид мекунад, ки гуфта мешавад дар муроҷиатнома метавонад нофаҳмиҳои истеъмолкунандагонро ба вуҷуд орад.
Дар муроҷиатнома аз FDA даъват карда мешавад, ки танҳо ба даъвоҳои ғизоӣ дар бораи маҳсулоти дорои миқдори зиёди ғизои солим мусоидаткунанда иҷозат диҳад-дар бораи сабзавот, меваҳо, ғалладонагиҳо, лӯбиёгӣ ё чормағз фикр кунед. Масалан, ин маънои онро дорад, ки маҳсулоти ғалладона бо рӯйхати компонентҳо пур аз ғалладонагиҳо ва шакарҳои пур аз мева метавонанд нисбат ба маҳсулоти ғалладонае, ки пур аз қандҳои иловашуда ва асосан донаҳои тозашуда доранд, даъвои бештари саломатӣ дошта бошанд, ҳатто агар он бо ғанӣ карда шуда бошад маводи ғизоӣ муҳим. Дар дархост дархост карда мешавад, ки танзими беҳтари хӯроки ғанишуда ва инчунин кафолат додани ширкатҳои хӯрокворӣ дар доираи дастурҳои FDA тақвият дода шавад.
"Пӯшидани маҳсулоти калорияи холӣ бо таъкид кардани як ғизои ягона, ба монанди сафеда ё нах, дар муқоиса бо сифати умумии хӯрок барои истеъмолкунандагон беадолатона аст" гуфт асосгузори KIND ва директори генералӣ Даниэл Лубецкий дар изҳороти матбуотӣ. "Бо истифодаи сахтгирии бештар ба истифодаи даъвоҳои ғизоӣ, FDA метавонад шаффофияти тамғагузориро афзоиш диҳад ва ба одамон дар беҳтар муайян кардани хӯрокҳое, ки ба ғизои солим мусоидат мекунанд, кумак кунад.
Дар як сӯҳбати почтаи электронӣ бо Cooking Light, Лубецкий гуфт, ки даъвоҳои ғизоӣ дар бастабандии ғизо аксар вақт дар хӯрокҳои холии калориянок сӯиистифода мешаванд. Ҳанӯз дар соли 2015, гурӯҳи KIND аз FDA даъват кард, ки ғояҳои худро дар бораи он, ки чӣ тавр "солим" -ро дар тамғакоғазҳои ғизоӣ истифода бурдан мумкин аст, тағир диҳад.
"Он замон таърифи" солим "бар зидди равғанҳои фоиданоке, ки дар хӯрокҳо ба монанди чормағз, лосос ва авокадо мавҷуданд, табъиз карда мешуд, аммо ин истилоҳро метавон дар ашёе мисли пудинги шоколади бе равған истифода бурд" гуфт Лубецкий.
FDA айни замон дар марҳилаи аз нав муайян кардани 'солим' қарор дорад, зеро таҳқиқот манфиатҳои равғанҳои солими қалбро ба саломатии умумии мо нишон медиҳанд. Дархост дархост шудааст, ки ба FDA дар рисолати худ дар ин кор кумак кунад.
Дар дархост дархост карда мешавад, ки ба қоидаҳои ҷорӣ тағирот ворид карда шавад, ки сатҳи ифшои шакарҳои иловагӣ ва равғани трансро дар бар гирад, ба истиснои сатҳи ифшои равған ва холестирин. Он гоҳ боз ҳам дуртар меравад ва талаб мекунад, ки қоидаҳои ҷорӣ оид ба бекор кардани хӯрокҳо, ба истиснои хӯрок ва маҳсулоти асосии хӯрокворӣ, зиёда аз 25 фоизи арзиши рӯзонаи равғанҳои тофта, натрий ё шакар илова ё зиёда аз 1 грамм равғани транс дошта бошанд. аз пешниҳоди даъвоҳои маводи ғизоӣ.
Дар ҷустуҷӯи маслиҳатҳои осон барои хӯрдани солимтар?
Тадқиқоти ба наздикӣ гузаронидаи Ассотсиатсияи қалби Амрико нишон дод, ки 95 дарсади амрикоиҳо баъзан ё ҳамеша ҳангоми харид аз хӯрокворӣ интихоби ғизои солимро меҷӯянд, аммо танҳо 28 дарсад фаҳмидани он, ки кадом маҳсулот воқеан солим аст, осон аст. Агар касе шубҳа надошта бошад, ки чӣ тавр тамғаи ғизоро дуруст хондан мумкин аст, кӯшиш кардан мумкин аст, ки интихоби солимро дар асоси танҳо бастаи ғизо муайян карда, беихтиёр интихоби нодурусти ғизоро анҷом диҳед.
"Ман шодам, ки дархостро дастгирӣ мекунам" гуфт доктор Дэвид Катс MD, MPH ва директори муассисаи Маркази тадқиқоти пешгирии Донишгоҳи Йел, ки ҳаммуаллифи ин дархост мебошад. "Тағир додани қоидаҳои даъвои мундариҷаи ғизоӣ бо мақсади кафолат додани он, ки қисми зиёди маҳсулот аз як манбаи ғизои воқеан серғизо истеҳсол мешавад, ба саломатии аҳолӣ таъсири тӯлонӣ мерасонад."
"Натиҷаи беҳтарин ин аст, ки FDA қоидаеро, ки дар солҳои 90 -ум татбиқ шуда буд, навсозӣ мекунад" гуфт Стефани Часар RD ва коршиноси саломатӣ ва беҳдошт дар KIND. "Агар дархости мо қабул карда шавад, маҳсулоти калорияҳои холӣ аз истифодаи даъвоҳои маводи ғизоӣ манъ карда мешаванд ё ҳадди аққал барои ифшои" маводи ғизоии манфӣ "ба монанди шакар ва равғани транс.
Муборизаи яксола бо истеҳсолкунандагони газакҳои Kind Healthy бо он анҷом ёфт, ки ширкат розӣ шуд, ки "солим" -ро барои муайян кардани фалсафаи корпоративии худ истифода барад, на дар бораи маҳсулоти худ ягон даъвои ғизоӣ пешниҳод кунад.
"Дар мубоҳисаҳои худ бо Kind, мо мавқеи ширкатро ҳамчун хоҳиши истифодаи" солим ва болаззат "ҳамчун як ҷузъи фалсафаи корпоративии худ дар муқоиса бо истифодаи" солим "дар заминаи даъвои маводи ғизоӣ фаҳмидем. FDA тамғакоғазро дар маҷмӯъ арзёбӣ мекунад ва нишон додааст, ки дар ин маврид эътироз намекунад ", - омадааст дар оҷонсӣ.
Дар моҳи апрели соли 2015, FDA ба Kind як номаи огоҳкунандаи дарозмуддат фиристод ва гуфт, ки наметавонад иддао кунад, ки баргҳои мева ва чормағз солиманд, зеро онҳо дорои равғанҳои аз ҳад зиёд тофтаанд ва азбаски он дорои мазмуни антиоксидантро солим тавсиф кардааст, гарчанде ки таърифи тиббӣ вуҷуд надорад. даъворо дастгирӣ кунед.
"Хело қонунвайронкуниҳои дар номаи огоҳкунанда зикршударо қонеъкунанда ҳал кард" гуфт FDA рӯзи сешанбе.
Ширкат аз FDA хоҳиш кард, ки ба тамғаи ғизо чиро "солим" бинад.
"Низомномаи ҷорӣ 20 + сол пеш таъсис ёфтааст. Дар доираи он хӯрокҳо ба монанди чормағз, лосось ва авокадо солим ҳисобида намешаванд, аммо ашёҳо ба монанди пудинги бе равған ва қаннодҳои тостери камравған метавонанд ”гуфт Кинд дар изҳорот.
"Истеъмолкунандагон мехоҳанд интихоби огоҳонаи ғизо кунанд ва масъулияти FDA ба онҳо кумак кардан тавассути таъмини тамғакоғазҳо дар бораи ғизои дуруст ва боэътимод аст. Бо дарназардошти таҳқиқоти таҳаввулёбандаи ғизо, қоидаҳои ниҳоӣ дар бораи далелҳои ғизо ва дархости шаҳрвандон, мо боварӣ дорем, ки ҳоло вақти аз нав дида баромадани қоидаҳо оид ба талабот ба маводи ғизоӣ, ба истилоҳи истилоҳи "солим" аст "гуфт агентӣ.
"Мо ният дорем, ки дар ояндаи наздик дар бораи ин масъалаҳо шарҳи оммавӣ гирем."
"Kind аз он хушнуд аст, ки FDA мавқеи худро тағир додааст, аммо мегӯяд, ки кори он то он даме, ки таърифи танзимкунандаи солим ба мувофиқат бо илм ва дастурҳои парҳезии муосир нав карда нашавад, анҷом дода нахоҳад шуд" гуфт ширкат.
CFR - Кодекси танзими федералӣ Title 21
Маълумот дар ин саҳифа то ҳол мавҷуд аст 1 апрели 2020.
Барои версияи навтарини CFR Title 21, ба Кодекси электронии қоидаҳои федералӣ (eCFR) равед.
Боби А - Муқаррароти умумӣ
| Сек. 101.13 Даъвои мундариҷаи ғизоӣ - принсипҳои умумӣ. |
| Sara Baer-Sinnott, Oldways | David Katz*, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP |
| Jeff Blumberg, PhD | James Painter, PhD, RD |
| Connie Diekman, MEd, RD, LD, FADA | Mike Roussell, PhD |
| Mark Hyman, MD | Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH |
| David Jenkins, MD, PhD, DSc | Walter Willett, PhD |
| Wahida Karmally, DrPH, RD, CDE, CLS | Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RD |
*Senior Nutrition Advisor for KIND
About KIND Healthy Snacks
Since its founding in 2004, KIND has been on a mission to make the world a little kinder one snack and one act at a time.
KIND’s snacks are made from delicious, wholesome ingredients, are gluten free and are made from non-genetically engineered ingredients. KIND currently offers seven different snack lines including: KIND ® Fruit & Nut and KIND ® PLUS, two lines of delicious whole nut & fruit bars KIND ® Nuts & Spices, a line of whole nut & spice bars that have 5g of sugar or less KIND Healthy Grains ® Clusters, delicious blends of five super grains KIND Healthy Grains ® Bars, a line of crunchy and chewy granola bars and STRONG & KIND ® , a line of bold, savory bars featuring 10g of protein. KIND’s newest innovation – KIND ® BREAKFAST – are soft baked with a crispy outside, providing sustained energy from whole grains.
Through its social mission – known as the KIND Movement – KIND, together with its community, is committed to inspiring kindness through acts big and small. It fulfills this commitment through programming like KIND Causes, which helps people bring their socially-impactful ideas to life with monthly grants.
FDA allows ingredient swaps without label changes
During the coronavirus pandemic, the FDA has been responsive to the needs of the food industry as it tries to navigate a new normal where demand is high and manufacturing is continuing at full speed.
New regulations that have come down in the last few months include those allowing eggs and other items intended for foodservice to be sold at retail without having to make labeling changes. While products are getting to consumers in slightly unfamiliar packages, these regulations have helped reallocate food to consumers shopping in grocery stores as restaurant dining rooms and cafeterias have shut down en masse to slow the spread of the virus. A quick explanation to consumers is generally sufficient for them to understand why it's needed.
This regulatory change, however, has already set off warning bells among some consumers. While the FDA likely intended this as an opportunity to help manufacturers keep their factories rolling, the fact that it came out on the Friday before a long holiday weekend and allows for ingredient changes without label changes could make consumers think that regulators — and food manufacturers — have something to hide.
A plain reading of the guidance basically shows that the regulations only allow manufacturers to make swaps that many consumers might not care about or even notice — like unbleached flour for bleached flour, or leaving green peppers out of a quiche that contains four other vegetables. The FDA notes this is necessary because the pandemic has strained supply chains everywhere, and specific ingredients may see shortages as time goes on. This guidance doesn't allow a manufacturer to make big changes, like leaving raisins out of cinnamon raisin bread, or swapping alternative flours for whole wheat in a muffin recipe.
However, these new regulations don't require any public disclosure of these changes. This is the kind of regulation that makes consumers less apt to trust food companies. According to a 2018 study from the Center for Food Integrity, only a third of consumers said they strongly agreed the food they ate was safe, and only 44% had a positive opinion of food manufacturing. In 2019, three out of four consumers said they would switch brands to one that provides more in-depth product information beyond what's on the label, according to a study by Label Insight and the Food Industry Association.
As more food companies have embraced transparency, opinions have shifted somewhat. And as consumers are now much more aware of the dedicated work that is going into making their food, 78% said they are confident that the food they are buying is safe, according to a recent study from the International Food Information Council.
While manufacturers cannot control the fact that the FDA put out the regulations on a day that consumers would be less likely to be aware of them, they can control the way they are utilized. Instead of just making a swap in the factory, manufacturers could publicize the changes on social media, their brand website, by information displayed at the point of sale or through stickers on packaging alerting consumers of a potential change.
Consumers are more likely to be understanding about changes as long as they are informed. And highly sensitive consumers, including those with food allergies, will continue to place trust in the brands that take care to let them know that manufacturing practices during the pandemic will keep them safe — or that temporary changes may result in new risks.
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CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21
The information on this page is current as of April 1 2020.
For the most up-to-date version of CFR Title 21, go to the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR).
Subpart A - General Provisions
§ 101.1 - Principal display panel of package form food.
§ 101.2 - Information panel of package form food.
§ 101.3 - Identity labeling of food in packaged form.
§ 101.4 - Food designation of ingredients.
§ 101.5 - Food name and place of business of manufacturer, packer, or distributor.
§ 101.7 - Declaration of net quantity of contents.
§ 101.8 - Vending machines.
§ 101.9 - Nutrition labeling of food.
§ 101.10 - Nutrition labeling of restaurant foods whose labels or labeling bear nutrient content claims or health claims.
§ 101.11 - Nutrition labeling of standard menu items in covered establishments.
§ 101.12 - Reference amounts customarily consumed per eating occasion.
§ 101.13 - Nutrient content claims - general principles.
§ 101.14 - Health claims: general requirements.
§ 101.15 - Food prominence of required statements.
§ 101.17 - Food labeling warning, notice, and safe handling statements.
§ 101.18 - Misbranding of food.
Subpart B - Specific Food Labeling Requirements
§ 101.22 - Foods labeling of spices, flavorings, colorings and chemical preservatives.
§ 101.30 - Percentage juice declaration for foods purporting to be beverages that contain fruit or vegetable juice.
Subpart C - Specific Nutrition Labeling Requirements and Guidelines
§ 101.36 - Nutrition labeling of dietary supplements.
§ 101.42 - Nutrition labeling of raw fruit, vegetables, and fish.
§ 101.43 - Substantial compliance of food retailers with the guidelines for the voluntary nutrition labeling of raw fruit, vegetables, and fish.
§ 101.44 - What are the 20 most frequently consumed raw fruits, vegetables, and fish in the United States?
§ 101.45 - Guidelines for the voluntary nutrition labeling of raw fruits, vegetables, and fish.
Subpart D - Specific Requirements for Nutrient Content Claims
§ 101.54 - Nutrient content claims for "good source," "high," "more," and "high potency."
§ 101.56 - Nutrient content claims for "light" or "lite."
§ 101.60 - Nutrient content claims for the calorie content of foods.
§ 101.61 - Nutrient content claims for the sodium content of foods.
§ 101.62 - Nutrient content claims for fat, fatty acid, and cholesterol content of foods.
§ 101.65 - Implied nutrient content claims and related label statements.
§ 101.67 - Use of nutrient content claims for butter.
§ 101.69 - Petitions for nutrient content claims.
Subpart E - Specific Requirements for Health Claims
§ 101.70 - Petitions for health claims.
§ 101.71 - Health claims: claims not authorized.
§ 101.72 - Health claims: calcium, vitamin D, and osteoporosis.
§ 101.73 - Health claims: dietary lipids and cancer.
§ 101.74 - Health claims: sodium and hypertension.
§ 101.75 - Health claims: dietary saturated fat and cholesterol and risk of coronary heart disease.
§ 101.76 - Health claims: fiber-containing grain products, fruits, and vegetables and cancer.
§ 101.77 - Health claims: fruits, vegetables, and grain products that contain fiber, particularly soluble fiber, and risk of coronary heart disease.
§ 101.78 - Health claims: fruits and vegetables and cancer.
§ 101.79 - Health claims: Folate and neural tube defects.
§ 101.80 - Health claims: dietary noncariogenic carbohydrate sweeteners and dental caries.
§ 101.81 - Health claims: Soluble fiber from certain foods and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).
§ 101.82 - Health claims: Soy protein and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).
§ 101.83 - Health claims: plant sterol/stanol esters and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).
Subpart G - Exemptions From Food Labeling Requirements
§ 101.100 - Food exemptions from labeling.
§ 101.108 - Temporary exemptions for purposes of conducting authorized food labeling experiments.
Some KIND Bars Not So Healthy, FDA Says
FDA warns some KIND bars don't meet standards to bear "healthy" label.
Kind Bars Under Fire for 'Healthy' Label
— -- KIND says it's fruit and nut bars are "pretty much the nirvana of healthful tastiness" -- but it seems not all of their bars are healthy enough so to bear a "healthy" label, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA sent KIND Healthy Snacks a warning letter, stating that several of its bars -- Kind Fruit and Nut Almond and Apricot, Kind Fruit and Nut Almond and Coconut, Kind Plus Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate + Protein, and Kind Plus Dark Chocolate Cherry Cashew + Antioxidants -- bear labels that don't comply with FDA standards.
The FDA said that the company makes claims the bars are "healthy" "no trans fats" and "plus" without meeting the requirements to do so.
"However, none of your products listed above meet the requirements for use of the nutrient content claim 'healthy' that are set forth in [federal regulations.]," William Correll,, director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition wrote in the warning letter dated March 17.
To claim that something is healthy, a food must have no more than 1 gram of saturated fat per serving and contain no more than 15 percent of its calories from saturated fat, the letter says.
The KIND bars contain between 2.5 and 5 times this amount of saturated fat per bar, according to the letter. The FDA also said KIND had other labeling problems, including the use of the word "plus," and said the 7-page letter was not meant to be an "all-inclusive list of violations."
KIND says it is working with the FDA and will change its labels, but not the recipes, said KIND spokesman Joe Cohen.
He said nuts were to blame for the labeling problem.
"Nuts, key ingredients in many of our snacks and one of the things that make fans love our bars, contain nutritious fats that exceed the amount allowed under the FDA's standard," Cohen said. "There is an overwhelming body of scientific evidence supporting that nuts are wholesome and nutritious. This is similar to other foods that do not meet the standard for use of the term healthy, but are generally considered to be good for you like avocados, salmon and eggs. Our team at KIND is fully committed to working alongside the FDA, and we’re moving quickly to comply with its request."
KIND violated the FDA's longstanding labeling rules, which are intended to protect consumers, said Toni Marinucci, a registered dietitian and nutritionist at Staten Island University Hospital.
"If it says 'healthy,' a person doesn't necessarily read the whole nutrition facts label and is just quick to grab," Marinucci said.
Require NJ supermarkets to separate and donate excess food to charity organizations
For months, with friends and volunteers in our School district (Allendale, Saddle River, Upper Saddle River and Ho-Ho-Kus) in New Jersey, we have requested donations of excess food from several local supermarkets to distribute to people facing food insecurity. We registered as a Nonprofit to gain credibility and gave our group a name: FrontLine Teens, because we put our group and ideas together when the Covid-19 pandemic hit and its devastating effects on our economy and society became overwhelming. We believe Teenagers can help society overcome crisis and should be fighting on the “front Line”.
Sadly, all our requests for donations of excess food from supermarkets were denied with the same abrupt response: Supermarkets can’t donate their excess food it needs to be destroyed and disposed for liability reasons.
One supermarket manager was kind enough to spend a few minutes with us and explain how they have to take great measures to destroy their excess food, like dumping chlorine on it to prevent lawsuits Armed with printed materials from The Public Health Law Center, explaining the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, and the State and Federal laws protecting food donors from potential liability, we went to talk to more supermarkets, but the information provided didn't make any difference. They all knew about Good Samaritan Laws, but they also knew, they could still be taken to court and the risk of a lawsuits is much greater than any possible benefit of giving us their unsellable or ugly food. To them, it wasn’t worth the risk. Supermarkets have an elaborate system in place designed to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations on top of their own company policy. They can not just break that system without another system in place.
The main hurdle lays in the lack of federal or state guidance on how to safety conduct donations. Even if a grocery store manager would decide to trust the protection from Good Samaritan Laws and make a donation, he would be in the uncertain territory from what can be included or how to transport donations, to whether food needs to be kept cold and how interpreting best-by dates. He would be basically inventing his own policy at his own risk! To this day, we haven’t been able to convince any supermarkets to donate any excess products to us. Our request is for ugly or imperfect apples, oranges, tangerines or pears, or any kind of single packed snacks or juices to add to the paper bag lunches we prepare for the homeless every other week. Large amounts of their food goes straight to the garbage can all due to the lack of a procedure for supermarkets to follow if donating foods.
We have read extensively about the efforts supermarkets and the government are taking on the road to prevent food waste, but in reality: SUPERMARKETS DUMP HUNDREDS OF POUNDS OF EDIBLE FOOD ON A REGULAR BASIS! Every day efforts are delayed, donations that could go to feed the hungry go to waste by the Ton. According to Feeding America, every year, more than 43 billion pounds of food from grocery stores get thrown away. Fear of lawsuits, due to vague laws and nonexistent regulations prevent food from being donated to people in need.
Our petition: 1. WE NEED NEW JERSEY’S GOVERNMENT TO APPOINT OR CREATE A REGULATORY AGENCY (Possibly the NJ department of health) TO GUIDE BUSINESSES IN TERMS OF FOOD WASTE. 2. SAID AGENCY SHOULD IMPLEMENT GUIDANCE ABOUT HOW FOOD RETAILERS SHOULD SAFELY HANDLE THE PROCESS OF DONATING AND ENFORCE COMPLIANCE. 3. REQUIRE EVERY SUPERMARKET TO PARTNER WITH A CHARITY ORGANIZATION AND HAVE A SENSIBLE SYSTEM IN PLACE TO ELIMINATE FOOD WASTE AND DONATE EXCESS FOOD TO HELP FEED THE PEOPLE IN NEED AS PART OF REGULAR OPERATIONS. 4. NEW JERSEY’S GOVERNMENT SHOULD OFFER ADDITIONAL TAX INCENTIVES BEYOND FEDERAL INCENTIVES TO COMPENSATE FOR THE INCREASE OF COSTS AND RESOURCES DEDICATED TO DONATIONS.
We Need a Law requiring all supermarkets to donate and recycle their unsold products in order to help mitigate both, food waste and food insecurity. On April 14th, and after 6 years of discussions, Murphy signed bill A2371 into Law requiring large food waste generators to separate and recycle food waste instead of sending it to landfills. We believe this law was the first step to ensure change in the way food waste is handled. However, it is disappointing that this law doesn’t include anything about donations, especially since similar Legislation in other states are already requiring supermarkets to donate their food.
Supermarkets are private owned business they can buy whatever amount of food they want and do whatever they want with their inventory they manage their operations and products in whatever way better fit their business. All of that is fair, and we all want supermarket owners to be successful in order to generate more jobs and support the economy. However, we are talking about food here. Food has a vital component that must be addressed as soon as possible! Food retailers carry a social responsibility beyond their business operations. Food is humanity’s most basic necessity It has a value beyond its business value and it should be measured in units beyond a price tag.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH), and several other agencies are in charge of regulating and ensuring food safety for human consumption. They regulate how food should be manipulated, processed, handled and distributed. So, why are they not regulating the process of food donations and food waste if those are certainly part of the food industry lifecycle? The FDA should also carry the responsibility of establishing standards, regulating and enforcing how and when edible food can be destroyed and these standards should be added to the FDA Food Code. We believe the value of food itself needs to be protected and donations of eatable food to charity should be included as mandatory in the system of dealing with food. Although supermarkets see price tags on the shelves, food to some people is the difference between eating anything at all.
New Jersey is proactive and compromised with reducing food waste and food insecurity and we are proud of all that has been accomplished and underway, but a determined legislative action is needed specifically to ensure edible food (unmarketable due to labeling, appearance or surplus) is separated from scraps and donated to charity as part of regular operations in supermarkets and large generators of food scraps.
Similar legislations in place:
Similar laws requiring and regulating excess food donations are already in place in other states New York recently passed legislation requiring: “Large generators of food scraps must: 1. Separate and donate edible food and 2. Separate and recycle all remaining food scraps if within 25 miles of an organics recycler”. UPDATE: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) filed a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with the Department of State to add a new 6 NYCRR Part 350. This Impressive 12 pages proposed document includes all the guidance needed in order to conduct safe donations!
Why can New Jersey Health Department establish something similar in a simple an effective document to direct supermarkets in how to donate their excess food?
Another Example is France, worlds’ pioneer on legislating and regulating mandatory excess food donations. From them, we can confirm the law, in effect since 2016, have been successfully implemented and returns consistent positive results. The regulation mandates that supermarkets above
4,500 square feet sign an agreement with food assistance organizations to donate their excess edible, unsold products. According to this article published on Foodtank.com representatives of both food assistance organizations and supermarkets observed that donation quantities increased by approximately 30 percent in 2017, just one year after implementing the law.
Where do NJ's Legislation Stands:
In 2017 New Jersey passed legislation to establish food waste reduction goal of 50% by 2030. In 2019 Governor Murphy signed 10 bills designated to help battle the hunger in the state, including A4705, establishing the New Jersey Food Waste Task Force, tasked with implementing a food waste reduction plan and developing future actions towards sustainable and achievable food waste reduction. The draft of this plan clearly emphasizes the high importance of donations as they are the second tier of EPA’s Food Recovery Hierarchy, and reads “The New Jersey Department of Health has a role to educate and inform the public about this protections (God Samaritan Act) to remove liability as a perceived barrier to donating food” and “By educating institutions about liability protection, food donations may become a more frequent occurrence and considered a preferred solution instead of merely disposing of surplus food”. Law AJR174 also, passed in 2019, urges large food retailers in the state to reduce food waste.
We feel NJ Legislation in food waste is too passive and merely about educating, informing, urging and suggesting changes. We would like to see a legislation that takes control of the problem and enforce the necessary changes and we need the NJ department of health to do a little more to educate and inform! We need them to implement guidance about how food retailers should safely handle the process of donating and enforce compliance.
Why this legislation and changes are urgent?
We are in a critical time of the hunger crisis According to this study from Feeding America, Food insecurity affected more than 50 million Americans in 2020, an increase of 13 million since 2018. Much of this increase was due to job losses and the devastating economic effects from the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Community FoodBank of New Jersey, COVID-19’s Impact on Food Insecurity in New Jersey report, more than 1.2 million NJ residents are projected to be food insecure in 2020, with 431,000 newly food insecure last year.
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