Food donation from Hospitals to the territory (Italy)

​The PA6 is based on the activity already implemented inside the Local Hospital of Asti (local Health Authority-ASL AT): the collection of lunch-packs uneaten from the employee’s canteen of the Local Hospital of Asti. The lunch-packs are fresh, packed in the early morning and collected just after the closure of the canteen service. 

​At the moment the Local Hospital of Asti can donate 40 lunch-packs of 400 hectograms each one to the municipal canteen for disadvantaged people.
The Regional Authority - Regional Board of Health is interested in developing a joint strategy to replicate the best practice of the Local Hospital of Asti (local Health Authority-ASL AT) in other Hospitals in the Piedmont region. 

​LAMORO established a permanent round table (meetings in June, July, August and September 2017, February 2018) with regional stakeholders dealing with Health infrastructures, local representatives of hospitals (on the regional territory) and LAMORO consortium (Municipalities, Chambers of Commerce and Public Administration in general). 

On October 2018 a working table event will take place with the representatives of Regional Authority (Health and the Consumer protection that is in charge of the regional law about food waste) and the local hospitals of the piedmont region. On the basis of the Hospital of Asti experience (what is running and what is not well running/SWOT…) LAMORO is implementing the protocol/check list as the tool useful for the regional round table. Tool: technical methods how to store food, technical equipment needed, social cooperative roles, charities involvement, data collection system on food not wasted, law framework. The Regional Authority has given its sponsorship (Board of Health, Board of Consumers protection).