EU Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub

October 2023

EU Food Safety

Dear readers,

Welcome to the October edition of the Hub’s newsletter, bringing you the latest news and resources in food loss and waste prevention.

Join the streaming of the joint meeting of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste and the European Citizens’ Panel 7-8 November 2023. Citizens’ Panel serves as a platform to exchange views with citizens and harness their insights on how to step up action to reduce food waste in the EU.

Follow the presentations and discussions through web-streaming, via the links below:

Citizens' Panel on 7 November: 09:00 - 13:00
Platform meeting on 7 November: 15:00-18:00
Platform meeting on 8 November: 09:30-16:30

This month, we also have a special focus on consumer food waste: check out the studies from Wageningen Food & Biobased Research.

Happy reading!

14th meeting of the EU Platform on Food losses and Food Waste

EU Citizens’ Panel and EU Platform on FLW in joint meeting discussing food waste prevention

The EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste will meet on 7 and 8 November with a packed agenda, including citizens joining to discuss the 23 recommendations of the EU Citizens Panel on Food Waste.

News (highlights)

The fourth edition of the International Food Waste and Food Waste Awareness Day in Romania

IDAFLW was celebrated in Romania with a number of activities, including an education campaign for consumers, cooking show, and Bucharest Food Expo, organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Too Good To Go community saved 250 MILLION MEALS from going to waste

Too Good To Go thanking its partners and users for having saved food going to waste, corresponding to more than 3 meals every second.

World Food Day: Making a Difference with 3 simple steps: Look - Smell - Taste

Too Good To Go encourages on World Food Day consumers to trust their senses and check if products past their 'Best Before' date are still good to eat.

Annual Stop Wasting Food Dinner 2023 in Denmark

This year’s annual Stop Wasting Food Dinner was hosted by the Italian Embassy in Denmark, with participation of Her Royal Highness Princess Marie of Denmark. The event aims to provide international inspiration for the fight against food loss and waste, focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3.

Startup GoFreegan is working on an application to reduce consumer food waste in Poland

GoFreegan's application will utilize image recognition technology allowing consumers to upload a picture of their surplus food for other consumers in their neighbourhood to come and collect it.

Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España's special newsletter on the occasion of IDAFLW 2023

Spanish agri-food cooperative reaches out to more 2.687 subscribers with a special edition newsletter, highlighting cooperatives' actions to prevent food waste.

Resources

Acceleration agenda for reducing food waste 2022-2025 in the Netherlands

Recommendations by Wageningen University & Research to the Dutch Government on actions to reach reduction targets by 2030, including a broad array of opportunities for organisations and companies to engage and scale up their efforts.

New report by Wageningen University & Research on the influence of date marking related visual cues on consumers' interpretation to discard or use food

Two consumer studies conducted in the Netherlands demonstrate how date marking related visual cues on food packages influence discarding behaviour of consumers at home.

New Study: On-pack information about expiry dates can change food waste behaviours in households

Wageningen Food & Biobased Research investigated whether extra on-pack information can help consumers to distinguish between use-by and best-before dates and thereby change food waste behaviours.

Foodbytes (Powered by Rabobank) features 10 exemplary startups working on food loss and waste reduction

Read the report on 10 innovative startups, from data cartographers, resilient producers, circular manufacturers and to scrappy productizers.

Events you may have missed

FAO Webinar on 12 October: Packaging as a means to reduce food loss and waste

The FAO webinar focused on the role of packaging and the measures that the packaging industry, regulators, and food processors might introduce, including improvements in date marking and on pack messages.

This is the monthly newsletter of the EU Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub, incorporating information on the latest activities of its members. The newsletter is created and disseminated by the Platform’s Secretariat, within the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety.

The contents of the newsletter do not necessarily reflect the position or opinion of the European Commission. For more information about EU actions on food loss and waste prevention, please visit the European Commission’s Food waste website.

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