Grocery shortages will ease within a week, says a leader in the food-chain coordination effort.
“There is plenty of food in this country. There is no food shortage,” said Clay Detlefsen, senior vice president of regulatory and environmental affairs for the National Milk Producers Federation and private-sector chair of the Food and Agricultural Sector Coordinating Council during a recent NMPF podcast. “We have a bit of a distribution problem caused largely by consumers, in essence, over-consuming.”
The information came in a press release issued Thursday morning by NMPF.
While coronavirus-related challenges to food supply chains go well beyond store shelves, the good news is that private-sector and government coordination is “light-years” better than in past crises such as Hurricane Katrina, said Detlefsen. The Food and Agriculture Sector Coordinating Council, set up after the Sept. 2001 terror attacks to share information between government agencies and private businesses, now has years of experience dealing with food-chain crises and has been dealing with coronavirus concerns for weeks.
To listen to the full podcast http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/f/f/b/ffb51315680a9b8e/Detlefsen_3-19-20.mp3?c_id=67566968&cs_id=67566968&expiration=1584635363&hwt=3677cf6c230e2de35d62c835fa140989.
