Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 0:44:27 GMT -5
The Government will require hospitality establishments by law to make uneaten food available to customers to take away, if requested, at no additional cost. To do this, they must have packaging suitable for food use, which is reusable or easily recyclable. This is one of the measures included in the Food Loss and Waste Prevention Bill approved this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers. This is the first regulation on this matter to be enacted in Spain , with the aim of avoiding the waste of unconsumed food and encouraging better use of it. A pioneering regulation in the European Union, since only France and Italy have similar regulations. The social, nutritional and environmental consequences of wasting food The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has highlighted the need for this law at a time when "we are talking about the possibility of a food crisis and the need for food production in the world.
Food waste Food waste, Planas pointed out, is an inefficiency of the food chain, in which a loss of 20% occurs . To reduce that percentage, all elements of the chain, except stores of less than 1,300 square meters, will be required to have a specific plan. Planas has highlighted that, of that 20% of losses throughout the chain Australia Phone Number occurs in retail sales or in homes , hence the law has social awareness of the problem as one of its objectives. pillars. During , Spanish households threw away 1,364 million kilos/liters of food , an average of kilos/liters per person, which amounts to 250 euros. However, in 2021, Spanish households threw away million kilos of food, 8.6% less than the previous year. The text regulates, on the other hand, donation to food banks , establishing that only those that are within the period of preferential consumption can be donated, that is, within the period in which all its characteristics are effectively in force.
Social initiative entities that receive donations must guarantee the traceability of the donated products through an entry and exit registration system for the food received and delivered. They may only use these products for donation, without under any circumstances being able to market them, and they must do so without any type of discrimination between the beneficiaries.For its part, the PP also suffered a decline in the support of Andalusians abroad, going from 17.3% to 13.6%, although less pronounced than that of the socialists. The statement also states that “in these elections we hope to ratify the first position with the option of POR ANDALUCIA. The foreign vote requested is 1.3% higher than in 2018. In provinces such as Huelva, Granada, Málaga, Seville, Cádiz there will surely be very close results, so the Foreign votes may be relevant in obtaining representatives in the Andalusian Parliament. This June 19, from Podemos Exterior we hope to be the first political force in the Andalusian diaspora with a new.
Food waste Food waste, Planas pointed out, is an inefficiency of the food chain, in which a loss of 20% occurs . To reduce that percentage, all elements of the chain, except stores of less than 1,300 square meters, will be required to have a specific plan. Planas has highlighted that, of that 20% of losses throughout the chain Australia Phone Number occurs in retail sales or in homes , hence the law has social awareness of the problem as one of its objectives. pillars. During , Spanish households threw away 1,364 million kilos/liters of food , an average of kilos/liters per person, which amounts to 250 euros. However, in 2021, Spanish households threw away million kilos of food, 8.6% less than the previous year. The text regulates, on the other hand, donation to food banks , establishing that only those that are within the period of preferential consumption can be donated, that is, within the period in which all its characteristics are effectively in force.
Social initiative entities that receive donations must guarantee the traceability of the donated products through an entry and exit registration system for the food received and delivered. They may only use these products for donation, without under any circumstances being able to market them, and they must do so without any type of discrimination between the beneficiaries.For its part, the PP also suffered a decline in the support of Andalusians abroad, going from 17.3% to 13.6%, although less pronounced than that of the socialists. The statement also states that “in these elections we hope to ratify the first position with the option of POR ANDALUCIA. The foreign vote requested is 1.3% higher than in 2018. In provinces such as Huelva, Granada, Málaga, Seville, Cádiz there will surely be very close results, so the Foreign votes may be relevant in obtaining representatives in the Andalusian Parliament. This June 19, from Podemos Exterior we hope to be the first political force in the Andalusian diaspora with a new.