On Friday, September 13, Associate Professor Emerita, Paulette Padanyi, led a symposium that discussed the findings of a three-year research project focused on understanding how receptive healthcare facilities are to using local food. The following articles discussed the research findings, including the barriers to expanding the local food movement into healthcare facilities: Guelph Mercury: Local food movement has little momentum in health care system, Guelph symposium told [1] and Better Farming: Hospitals need flexibility rather than hard rules for acquiring local foods, study concludes [2]
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