Purchasing Policies and Guides

Policies

Health Care Without Harm has created the following policy statements to raise awareness about key challenges with the current food system:

• Policy Statement on Antibiotics in Food (pdf)
• Antibiotic Resistance Factsheet (pdf)
• Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) (pdf)
• Genetically Engineered Food (pdf)

Here are some policy statements and resolutions by other health organizations:

• Improving Health Through Sustainable Food Purchasing (pdf)
  California Medical Association Resolution 705-07
• Healthy Food in Health Care (pdf)
  American Nurses Asso. 2008 House of Delegates Resolution
• Toward a Healthy, Sustainable Food System (pdf)
  American Public Health Association Policy Statement
• Healthy food service policies and practices letter to hospital CEOs (pdf) and Food Services Practices Survey
  from Minnesota Academy of Family Practitioners (MAFP)

Purchasing Guides

We have created the following purchasing guides to help health care facilities implement the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge.

• Sign the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge
• 10 Steps to Healthy Food in Health Care
• Food Eco-Labels: A Purchasing Guide (pdf)
• Purchasing Guide to Sourcing Dairy Products Without rBGH (pdf)
• Purchasing Guide to Sourcing Food Without Genetically Engineered Ingredients (pdf)
• Purchaser's Guide to Sourcing Sustainable Poultry (pdf)
• Purchaser's Guide to Sourcing Sustainable Coffee and Tea (pdf)
• Guide to Poultry Applicable Eco-labels (pdf)
• Choosing Environmentally Preferable Food Service Ware (pdf)
• Biobased Food Service Ware and Packaging (pdf)
• Sample Poultry Supplier Survey Questions (pdf)
• Feeding Arsenic to Poultry: Is This Good Medicine? (pdf)
• Seasonal Foods: A New Menu for Public Health (pdf)