Sentences with phrase «standardize food date labels»

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.

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.

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In February, GMA and the Food Marketing Institute joined together to streamline and standardize the wording accompanying the date labels on packages to offer greater clarity regarding the quality and safety of products.

«Clarifying and standardizing date label language is one of the most cost effective ways that we can reduce the 40 percent of food that goes to waste each year in the United States,» said Emily Broad Leib, Director, Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLfood that goes to waste each year in the United States,» said Emily Broad Leib, Director, Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLFood Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC).

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 sDate Label Call to Action, a pledge to standardize and streamline food date labels by 2020 and encourage other companies to do the sdate labels by 2020 and encourage other companies to do the same.