Consider reducing food loss
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What is Food loss?
(Source: Free encyclopedia "Wikipedia (Wikipedia)")
Foods that should otherwise be eaten such as unsold, leftovers, and expired foods are to be discarded. Causes of food disposal and loss are diverse, occur at each stage of production, processing, retailing and consumption. Since it leads to wasteful disposal if it is up to "day", display of only the "year and month" of the expiration date is beginning to spread to beverages and processed foods.

Meanwhile, in the world, one in nine out of the total population of 7.6 billion people, about 821 million people are suffering from hunger, about a third of the produced foods are thrown away by about 13 billion tons It is said that it is. Approximately 4 billion tons of food is produced worldwide every year, enough to cover the whole population. However, in developed countries, surplus materials are abandoned, and in developing countries "dietary imbalance" is caused by food shortage due to poverty, climate change, conflict and so on. (Source: United Nations WPF Report)

It is said that Japan's food self-sufficiency rate (calorie basis) is only 38%, suppression of food loss and not to import food more than necessary is a duty to be fulfilled by the country that relies on food import You might as well.

Regarding food roth, several projects are being promoted, especially the administration.

"NO-FOODLOSS PROJECT"

In order to reduce food loss throughout the food chain, the public and private sectors cooperate to develop a national movement to reduce food loss

Of the 17 goals of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) adopted by the United Nations Summit in September 2015 and currently promoted as a common goal of the world, the 12th “Responsibility to Create and Use” Has set the goal of “halving the world's food waste by 2030”.

AJIS As a partner of a customer dealing in foodstuffs, it already contributes to reducing the waste loss by providing a service called "sell-by date check", but while further facing the social challenge of food roth, it further enhances the shelf life check · Efforts to make it into a system are also under way. By converting the expiration date of the product into data, we will alert products that have come close to the deadline.
It is possible to maintain "more efficiently" at "more proper timing".

AJIS In this way, as a chain store partner I would like to face society and challenges beyond that and contribute with a small contribution through business.