Food waste in the EU

The UN sustainable development goals aim to halve per capita food waste at the retail and consumer level by 2030, and reduce food loss along the food production and supply chains.

Reducing food loss and waste is an integral part of the EU's 2020 Farm to Fork strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system. The strategy proposes setting legally binding targets to cut food waste by 50 % across the EU by 2023, and revising EU rules on date marking to avoid unnecessary discarding of food due to people's wrong perception of the 'use by' and 'best before' dates.

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