Europe’s high levels of food waste “are an ethical scandal at a time when hundreds of millions of people around the world are going hungry”, according to the head of the EU food safety watchdog.
“Theoretically, 100 million people could potentially have the calories that we throw away,” Dr Bernhard Url of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) told a food safety conference in Dublin.
The growing gap between food production and consumption had contributed to the high levels of waste of between 20 and 30 per cent – adding up to 88 million tonnes of food thrown away every year at a cost of €143 billion.
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