Food Insecurity Funding: Washington, DC’s The Washington Home launched a $704,906 Healthy Food Access Collaboration with 11 partners to reach about 8,600 older adults and cut barriers to healthy food. Power Outage Preparedness: BLUETTI is marketing integrated refrigerator backup and home energy storage as a way to prevent food spoilage during outages. Food Safety Crackdowns (India): Maharashtra FDA raided Siya Goyal’s family spice/dry-fruit shop in Pune, seizing ~4,172 kg worth ₹8.14 lakh and ordering a stop to operations over alleged Food Safety and Standards Act violations. Competition Watch (UK): The CMA opened a phase 1 merger probe into Danone’s planned acquisition of Huel. Contaminated Cooking Oil (Taiwan): TFDA found additional Central Union oil batches with excessive benzo[a]pyrene, affecting 1,322 businesses and triggering recalls/withdrawals. Food Prices & Policy (Nigeria): Nigeria joined a climate-food systems alignment initiative, while inflation eased to 15.91% in June as food prices stayed a key driver. Workplace Catering Deal: Sodexo won a major global food services contract with Meta covering 130+ locations in 30+ countries. School Meals Contract (UK): Chartwells secured a 3-year Isle of Wight school catering deal serving 4,000+ meals daily via local suppliers. Regenerative Agriculture Framework: SAI Platform rolled out the Regenerating Together framework to standardize and verify regenerative farming claims across crops, dairy and beef.