The Pennsylvania Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (PA-LFPA) will be modeled after Pennsylvania’s successful state-funded PASS (Pennsylvania Agricultural Surplus System) Program. Unlike the PASS Program, however, which seeks to first recover food that might otherwise go to waste, the PA-LFPA will work with Pennsylvania’s local food system to exclusively procure top-graded, high-quality product for distribution throughout the charitable feeding system which serves all 67 counties in Pennsylvania.

The project purpose is to facilitate and increase direct-to-market sales of food products grown by Delaware farmers, to Delaware community members. Over two years, project partners and collaborators will use one-time funds to pilot the purchase of fresh and frozen foods from Delaware farmers and a frozen food processor in the Delmarva region, to develop a long-term model for streamlined procurement with community outlets.

Docket Number: AMS-FTPP-20-0057
Comments Due: September 20, 2022

Summary

The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is soliciting comments and feedback on an update to the List of Bioengineered Foods (List) as it pertains to the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (the Standard or NBFDS).

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