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Emily Broad Leib
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Beyond ‘An apple a day’
October 8, 2024
Food law and policy expert Emily Broad Leib discusses why doctors need to know more about food and nutrition.
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Food banks across the globe provided nearly two billion meals last year — but they aren’t just helping to feed the hungry
September 30, 2024
Food banks across the world are rescuing food from farmers before it gets thrown out, helping people in need and reducing planet-warming pollution. Scientific American…
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Climate Action Is A Unified Solution To Strengthen Soils, Cut Food Waste, And Nourish The Future
September 27, 2024
During a Summit hosted by Food Tank and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) during Climate Week NYC, panelists connected the dots between ecosystem health,…
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Ultra Processed: How Food Tech Consumed the American Diet | CBS Reports
September 11, 2024
[Commentary by Emily Broad Leib]: Americans are among the world’s biggest consumers of ultra-processed foods, which comprise more than half of an average adult’s diet…
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Five tips to keep your fridge food fresher (and save $$$)
September 10, 2024
Few things are more frustrating than reaching into the fridge for a carton of strawberries or a head of lettuce mere days after grocery shopping,…
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The latest annual impact report from the Global Foodbanking Network — a nonprofit that works with regional food banks in more than 50 countries to…
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The Biden administration has issued, for the first time, a national strategy to combat a major national problem: food waste. Roughly 30 percent of the…
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State Programs Recycle Food Waste in Effort to Alleviate Hunger and Slow Diminishing Landfill Space
March 11, 2024
It is part of a statewide program requiring larger businesses to donate edible food and, if they can, recycle remaining food scraps. “Years ago, everything…
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Tackling climate change and alleviating hunger: States recycle and donate food headed to landfills
November 27, 2023
When Sean Rafferty got his start in the grocery business, anything that wasn’t sold got tossed out. But on a recent day, Rafferty, the store…
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Dan Zauderer and his in-laws had eaten plenty of pizza one evening in early October, and they still had seven slices left. What to do?…
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Opinion: California didn’t ban Skittles. But it tackled a food safety problem the FDA hasn’t solved
November 1, 2023
An op-ed by Emily Broad Leib: Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law California’s Food Safety Act banning four ingredients that are linked to…
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In a first-in-the-nation move, California has officially banned the use of Red Dye No. 3 and three other chemicals used in food. Governor Newsom signed…
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An ‘unintended negative consequence’: Revamped FDA guidelines force Ambler community fridge to close
October 10, 2023
The community fridge outside of the Weavers Way Co-op in Ambler opened in May 2021 and was an immediate hit in the community, speaking to…
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Expiration dates can actually do more harm than good
September 25, 2023
Let us paint you a picture: It’s 6 p.m. on a weeknight. You’re tired from a day at work and desperate for dinner. You open…
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If a single farm produced all the food wasted in the US, it would be the size of California and New York combined. We’re the culprits.
September 11, 2023
Danielle Melgar is working with the caterer for her wedding to make sure that between the “I do’s” and the last dance, food won’t be…
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Expiration Dates and Food Waste, ‘Schooled’
August 17, 2023
If the ‘best if used by’ label on the milk in your refrigerator had yesterday’s date, would you throw it away – or give it…
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Walk into a grocery store, and you’ll face a cacophony of expirations dates: “sell by,” “use by,” “freeze by.” Sometimes you’ll even see “enjoy by”…
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Opinion: Is your fridge filled with ‘expired’ food? Here’s why you shouldn’t throw it away
May 12, 2023
An op-ed by Emily Broad Leib: If on digging through your fridge you find food stamped with a phrase such as “Enjoy by,” “Best before,”…