Gersen is a professor of law at Harvard Law School and director of the Food Law Lab at the Petrie-Flom Center.

Your household will probably waste $1,500 of food this year, but there's a way to fix that

Here's the scenario. You're really hungry, you're making a sandwich and you're particularly pleased because you know there's some cheddar in the fridge that is going to make this sanger sing. Only when you finally locate said cheese, there's some blueish mould tingeing just one of its corners. Read more

A hotline is being launched to help combat the UK's £1.2bn food crime problem in the wake of the horse meat scandal.

Food crime is the deliberate manipulation, substitution, mislabelling or fraud in relation to food.

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) and Crimestoppers have creat...

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Local chefs and food writers share their must-haves from at the Minnesota State Fair.

f you are as obsessed with the Great Minnesota Get-Together as we are, folks tend to seek your advice on all things Minnesota State Fair, especially food. "What should we eat first?" "What’s your f...

But really, why aren't there more local food fests?

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The average British household wastes more than three weeks’ worth of food every year, research has revealed.

Almost six per cent (£2.56) of our groceries each week are chucked away, meaning on average £133.12 a year goes straight in the bin.

The survey, by kitche...