Sentences with phrase «food date labels»

Thus steps to facilitate food donations, improve food date labeling, and better educate consumers will be vital.

Thus steps to facilitate food donations, improve food date labeling, better manage portion sizes, and better educate consumers will be vital.

The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)-- a network of 400 of the biggest consumer goods companies across 70 countries — along with Champions 12.3 has approved a Call to Action to standardize food date labels worldwide by 2020.

RELEASE: Companies Commit to Simplify Food Date Labels Worldwide by 2020, Reducing Food Waste Source: Press Release

Businesses from the Consumer Goods Forum and Champions 12.3 coalition have issued a call to action to simplify and standardise food date labels worldwide by 2020 in a bid to reduce food waste as Champions 12.3 releases a progress report on global efforts to reduce food waste.

The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), a group of 400 consumer goods manufacturers from 70 countries, and Champions 12.3 have unanimously agreed for a Call to Action to standardise food date labels worldwide by 2020.

To learn more, visit The Dating Game: How Confusing Food Date Labels Lead to Food Waste in America.

Legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate and House on Wednesday to make food date labeling less confusing and more consistent.

More recently, the CGF also called for a global standardisation of food date labelling to help reduce waste and consumer confusion around date labels.

Also in September, the CGF launched the Date Label Call to Action, a pledge to standardize and streamline food date labels by 2020 and encourage other companies to do the same.

In addition to the U.S. Food Waste Challenge, USDA has unveiled several food loss reduction initiatives over the past few years, including an app to help consumers safely store food and understand food date labels, new guidance to manufacturers on donating misbranded or sub-spec foods, and research on innovative technologies to make reducing food loss and waste cost effective.

The Global Agribusiness Alliance pledged to halve its food loss by 2030 and the Consumer Goods Forum committed to standardize food date labels by 2020.

A group of consumer goods makers and retailers such as Tesco, Kellogg's, Walmart, Campbell Soup, Bimbo, Pick n Pay, Nestlé, Carrefour, and Unilever have supported the plan to simplify food date labels.

We are working with the industry to standardize food date labels that clearly communicate whether food is safe to consume, which helps consumers reduce their food waste.

«Simplifying food date labels is an important step forward in preventing food waste, and will help end the confusion related to «sell by» dates.

Standardizing food date labels is a simple and effective way to reduce the amount of edible food thrown out by households, saving them money and reducing their environmental footprint.

In the past year, food manufacturers and retailers scaled up their ambitions and efforts to cut consumer food waste by standardizing food date labels, including The Consumer Goods Forum's Call to Action to standardize date labeling worldwide by 2020, complemented by enhanced consumer education of meaning of date labels.

Every context will be unique and the solutions different, but in urban areas this often means educating consumers about ways to reduce the amount of food they throw away, developing programs that rescue unsold food that can be used by food banks, creating policies that simplify food date labeling and incentivizing businesses to re-purpose waste.