Lords quiz retail and food industry organisations
30 October 2013
The House of Lords EU Sub-Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy will this week continue their inquiry into food waste prevention by taking evidence from representatives of the food industry and retailers, as well as campaigning organisations working to help prevent food waste.
- Parliament TV: Food Waste Prevention
- Inquiry: The EU's contribution to food waste prevention
- EU Sub-Committee D - Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy
Witnesses
On Wednesday 30 October, Committee Room 2, Palace of Westminster
At 10.30am
- Andrew Opie, Director of Food and Sustainability, British Retail Consortium (BRC)
- David Bellamy, Environment Policy Manager, Sustainability Divison, Food and Drink Federation (FDF)
- Andrew Kuyk, Director, Sustainability Divison, Food and Drink Federation (FDF)
At 11.30am
- Niki Charalampopoulou, Campaigns and Policy Manager, Feeding the 5,000
- Duncan Williamson, Food Policy Manager, WWF UK
In the first session the Committee will focus on the food industry’s reluctance to see binding EU targets to reduce food waste, how the retailers can respond to criticism that their demands for standardised produce leads to waste on farms and what more can be done in research and innovation to develop new approaches to reduce food waste.
At the heart of the second session will be "The Pig Idea", a campaign to remove an EU ban on the feeding of some catering waste to pigs and chickens. The session will explore the removal of cosmetic standards for food, so that so-called ugly vegetables are not wasted, and potential requirements for food businesses to report on food waste, a good example of which already operates in Norway.