Welcome to the MD H2E Sustainable Food Newsletter – Spring Wrap-Up 2011!

Newsletter Highlights include:

• Get Recognition for your Hospital – Complete the Survey by June 30
• Executive at Chester River Hospital Center Launches Healthy Food Initiative
• Prepare Now for the Buy Local Challenge – July 23-31
• May 5 Conference Provides Cost-Saving Strategies for Local Sustainable Meat & Poultry Purchasing
• FDA Announces Pfizer Will Voluntarily Suspend Sale of Arsenic-Based Animal Drug
• Clinical Dietitian at Carroll Hospital Center Works with Food Service on Purchasing
• Michigan Hospitals Combat Obesity
• Save the Date:     FoodMed 2011 – October 18-19
• Webinars:     Tues June 28 – Preparing for FoodDay 2011
  Thurs June 30 – BPA & Phthalates in Food Packaging

NOW is the Time to Order Your Hospital’s Local Sustainable Turkeys & Hams for Thanksgiving & Christmas 2011

This presentation will provide an understanding of our food choices on health, the significance of the food environment on these choices, and opportunities for clinicians to influence food environments in service of health.

Presenters:

Ted Schettler, M.D., M.P.H., Science Environmental Health Network

Leslie Mikkelsen, R.D., Prevention Institute

Judith Bell, President, Policy Link

Location: online

Time: 5 p.m.

More info and registration at www.noharm.org/us_canada/events/webinars/

Hosted by Health Care Without Harm, the American Medical Association and Kaiser Permanente