FMI – the Food Industry Association appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Draft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics.1 Addressing food loss and waste throughout the entire supply chain – including at the consumer level – is acritical issue for the food industry. Many of our members have well-established programs to quantify, report, and reduce food waste that work in conjunction with recovery and donation efforts that provide countless meals to hungry Americans every year. In combination, these efforts are having a measurable impact on food loss and waste. The national strategy can play an important role in enhancing these efforts, while providing new opportunities for collaboration on several fronts. We look forward to working with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to further develop and implement the workplan outlined in the draft.

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