Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Calls on Europe to Tackle Food Waste

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Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Calls on

Europe to Tackle Food Waste

PR Newswire

BRUSSELS, July 12, 2012

BRUSSELS

,

July 12, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

Effectively tackling food waste demands political action as much as consumer

awareness, according to a new study presented in

Brussels

today by the Barilla

Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN) entitled "Food Waste : causes, impacts and

proposals".

One third of the total food production intended for human consumption is

wasted every year. In

Europe

alone, this amounts to 180 kg per capita. In

addition to the vast societal implications, such levels of food waste also have a

huge environmental and economic impact.

The Barilla Center's study, launched today at a policy debate in

Brussels

, was

attended by over 200 participants from public institutions, trade associations,

businesses, universities and civil society.

The first of two panel discussions, "Tackling food waste: a view from the supply

chain" brought together producers, retailers and NGOs to formulate

recommendations for practical solutions to tackle food waste. In the second

panel, "The policy challenge: the EU perspective", representatives from

European institutions discussed what actions the EU must take to achieve the

Commission's target of halving the disposal of edible food waste by 2020.

The debate was followed by a demonstration from Academia Barilla chefs of

how one can make delicious dishes using leftovers and using all parts of the

products, thus wasting less food.

Guido Barilla, Chairman of the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition, said: "Food

losses and waste cast a worrisome shadow over the model of growth that has

governed the global economy for the past fifty years - a model that is totally

unsustainable".

Tristram Stuart, writer and activist, said: "As this new BCFN study confirms,

solving the global food waste scandal requires global action from governments,

citizens and businesses. Tackling food losses and food waste presents a

massive opportunity to increase food security and feed the world while also

reducing the environmental impact of our food system".

Note to Editors

The Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition is a multidisciplinary think tank focusing

on issues of food and nutrition and their relations to economics, medicine, diet,

sociology and the environment. The work of the Barilla Center for Food &

Nutrition is backed by an authoritative Advisory Board composed of Umberto

Veronesi (Scientific Director, European Institute of Oncology of

Milan

; founder,

Umberto Veronesi Foundation; former Italian Minister for Health), Camillo

Ricordi (Professor of Surgery, Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology

and Immunology, University of Miami), Claude Fischler (Director of Research,

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS; Director, Edgar Morin

Centre,

Paris

), Ellen Gustafson (Founder and Executive Director, 30 Project; Co-

founder, FEED Foundation), Gabriele Riccardi (Professor of Endocrinology and

Metabolic Diseases, University of Naples "Federico II"; President, Italian Society

of Diabetology - SID), and Barbara Buchner (Director, Climate Initiative Policy,

Venice

).