Preliminary analysis of food flow in Food Banks

The Allocation of Food to Food Banks

Food banks throughout the U.S. provide nutrition to the needy. Much of the food that is distributed through food banks often originates with donors large manufacturers or distributors far from those needy clients. How that food is distributed by Feeding America, a large not-for-profit, is the subject of this essay. In 2005, Feeding America transitioned from the centralized allocation process, w...

Household food insecurity and hunger among families using food banks.

Over the past two decades, the demand for charitable food assistance has steadily grown, and a massive ad hoc system of food banks has become established in Canada. To assess the food insecurity and nutritional vulnerability of one subgroup of food bank users, interviews were conducted with a sample of 153 women in families using emergency food relief programs in Metropolitan Toronto. Ninety pe...

Odd numbers: food banks and liposuction.

• Percentage of Canadians living below StatsCan’s low-income cut-off line (defined as a family that spends more than 63% of its gross income on food, shelter and clothing): 15.5% Percentage of Canadians falling under the poverty line using the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development definition, i.e., those making less than half the nation’s median after-tax income: 10.3% (sources...

Determination of hazardous substances in food basket eggs in Tehran, Iran: A preliminary study

Extensive distribution of hazardous substances in food chain and the deleterious effect of their residues on public health are a great concern of the society. Chicken eggs, as one of the most popular food commodities, in different parts of Tehran (Iran) were analyzed for two groups of hazardous substances including some organochlorine pesticides (OC) such as aldrin, lindane, dieldrin, dichlorod...

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