Food Rescue Act

This bill would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture, through its Food and Nutrition Service, to set up and run a national food rescue system. The system would coordinate the recovery, processing, transportation, and distribution of surplus and donated food to emergency feeding organizations and communities that lack enough food. The Department would create a competitive grant program for food rescue organizations, which could use the money for food recovery, transportation, cold storage, technology to match surplus food with receiving groups, staff, equipment, and administrative costs. The bill authorizes Congress to provide whatever funding is needed for the program and directs the Department to coordinate it with existing emergency food programs.

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Sponsors

• Ritchie Torres Democrat sponsor
• 0 cosponsors