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Food Policy Council and Department of Environmental Protection outline statewide data, grant gaps and incentive programs
Summary
Pennsylvania's Food Policy Council and DEP described baseline food-waste data and a convening role for eight agencies; witnesses urged statewide coordination, sustainable funding for DEP's Food Infrastructure Recovery grants, and state investment in nutrition‑incentive programs such as Food Bucks.
Dawn Plummer, director of the Pennsylvania Food Policy Council, told the Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee that the council convenes eight state agencies (Aging, Agriculture, Community and Economic Development, Education, Environmental Protection, Health, Human Services, and Labor & Industry) and a 16-member advisory committee to align policy on food security, nutrition and food‑waste reduction.
Plummer cited the Department of Environmental Protection's 2022 statewide food-waste…
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