EU Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub

EU Food Safety

Dear readers,

Welcome to the July edition of the Hub’s newsletter, bringing you news about the food waste prevention across Europe and beyond. The EU Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub got a makeover to make it more intuitive and easier to use:

• All news, projects and other relevant materials are now gathered into one easy to search database, under the Resources tab.

• Check out the new dedicated section to EU-funded projects working to reduce food losses and waste, where you can find information on the projects and their results. This new section aims to give more visibility to projects’ findings and resources and make these easily available to the whole Hub community.

• You can now see when the EU Member States pages have been last updated.

Browse through the newly released report on voluntary agreements to reduce food loss and waste and don’t miss the EU grants for projects to reduce consumer food waste!

Go through the highlighted resources and discover many more on the Hub.

Happy reading!

Resources (highlights)

EU grants for projects to reduce consumer food waste

The call aims to support stakeholders in taking actions to address consumer food waste such as behavioural change interventions, awareness raising campaigns, education and training etc. Apply before 25 September!

The International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste 2024

The fifth International Day will focus on the need for financing to bolster efforts to reduce FLW, contribute to achieving climate goals and advancing the 2030 Agenda.

News

Launch of Dutch Date Labelling Coalition

The new coalition of Dutch manufacturers and supermarkets will collectively take extensive measures to clarify date marking on food products.

Events you may have missed

T4T webinar ''Food Waste Management in Tourism'' on 10 June

The webinar provided guidance and showcased effective practices for reducing food waste in the tourism sector. Check out the recording!

Webinar: ”Current developments in food loss & waste reduction” on 17 and 18 June

Folou & Wasteless organized a two-day webinar to delve into policy and regulatory strategies, measurement tools, innovative practices and valorisation strategies.

The international conference '’Towards Halving Food Waste in Europe'’ on 18-19 June

With over 350 participants from 33 countries and over 50 expert speakers, Food Waste Free United and its partners look back on a successful conference ''Towards Halving Food Waste in Europe''.

Publications

New report from the EU Platform on FLW: an overview of voluntary agreements on food loss and waste reduction

Discover the main takeaways from this extensive overview of voluntary agreements and other forms of collaboration across Europe.

New study: loss of beef during primary production at Swedish farms 2002 - 2021

Interesting findings on loss of beef and their hot spots in a study by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

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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ISSN: 2600-092X | EW-BP-20-001-EN-N