Sentences with phrase «food donors»

However, the perceived threat of liability has prevented many potential food donors from participating in these programs.

We now work with over 3,000 food donor businesses to collect quality surplus food and deliver it directly and free of charge, to over 1000 local charities.

Private food donors may take advantage of a tax break.

Our monthly cat food donor program provides caregivers dry and canned cat food.

Many vendors simply don't realize that the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, passed by Congress back in 1996, protects most food donors from liability.

The grant will also fund the improvement of basic technological infrastructure and improve cold chain capabilities, as well as allow for the hiring of regional and national level staff to cultivate and manage new food donors for food banks in the provinces in which they work.

Farmers and growers are some of our most generous food donors, not only redirecting surplus or out - of - spec fresh produce, but also proactively making sizeable donations of grain, retail - grade fresh produce, milk, eggs, rice and meat to assist some of Australia's most vulnerable.

OzHarvest now operates nationally, rescuing over 100 tonnes of food each week from over 3,000 food donors including supermarkets, hotels, airports, wholesalers, farmers, corporate events, catering companies, shopping centres, delis, cafes, restaurants, film and TV shoots and boardrooms.

However, due to limits placed in the Act and a lack of clarity in its provisions, many well - intentioned food donors and recipient organizations are not protected under this Act or may not understand the protections available.

The Bill Emerson Good Samaritans Food Donation Act protects several types of food donors and recipient organizations from liability.

To test this idea, Carter and Gerald Wilkinson, a University of Maryland biologist who, in the 1980s, was the first to document reciprocity in bats, recently conducted an experiment: They prevented sharing among usual reciprocal food donors, including 10 relatives.

Bats that had previously shared food with a wide network of nonrelatives ultimately had more food donors, the researchers found, compared to bats that had kept to a smaller, more familial web.

This mimics the bat's natural conditions, where hungry bats often rely on their food donors.

In FY2015 / 16, Second Harvest's Food Rescue program picked up fresh, surplus food that would have gone to waste from over 400 food donors and delivered 9.5 million pounds of food to 225 social service agencies in Toronto and beyond to help feed those experiencing hunger.