Guillaume Garot

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Person.png Guillaume Garot  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Politician)
Guillaume Garot.jpg
Born29 May 1966
NationalityFrench
Alma materPantheon-Sorbonne University, Sciences Po
PartySocialist Party (France)
French politician who proposed a bill to make it illegal for large French supermarkets to throw away or destroy food that had passed its sell by date. The bill passed unanimously, so large supermarkets are now required to give surplus food to charities for redistribution.

Employment.png Member of the French National Assembly

In office
2 May 2014 - Present

Employment.png Member of the French National Assembly

In office
17 June 2007 - 17 June 2012

Guillaume Garot is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who sat in the National Assembly from 2007 until 2012 and since 2014, representing the Mayenne department.[1] From 2012 until 2014, he was Junior Minister for the Food Industry under minister Stéphane Le Foll in the government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.

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In response to an estimated 7,000,000 tonnes of food wasted in France each year, Guillaume Garot proposed a bill to make it illegal for large French supermarkets to throw away or destroy food that had passed its sell by date. The bill passed unanimously, so large supermarkets are now required to give surplus food to charities for redistribution.[2]


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