19. Food Waste

Donating Food to Charities

Details

This guidance sets out recommended ways by which food businesses can effectively redistribute surplus food to charities.

This guidance sets out recommended ways by which food businesses can effectively redistribute surplus food to charities. However, use of this guide does not exempt either the donating food business, or the receiving charity, from any statutory requirement.

Also in this chapter

The information contained in this publication sets out both the legal requirements that food businesses are expected to comply with as well as good practice. However, it is industry guidance and does not necessarily cover everything that food businesses need to consider