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What about the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act? http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1791 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1791 >
by md224 12y ago
What about the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act?
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1791 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1791
> "A person or gleaner shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability arising from the nature, age, packaging, or condition of apparently wholesome food or an apparently fit grocery product that the person or gleaner donates in good faith to a nonprofit organization for ultimate distribution to needy individuals."
This was passed by Bill Clinton to encourage food donation by protecting people from liabilities short of gross negligence.
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson_Good_Samaritan_Act_of_1996 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson_Good_Samaritan_Act...
- egillie 12y agoInteresting! This doesn't seem to be common knowledge. I had a WA state legislator tell me back in 2005 that this was illegal when I tried to start something similar.