---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 26.402"
title: "48"
number: "26.402"
heading: "Policy."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/26.402"
---

# §26.402. Policy.


The Government encourages executive agencies and their contractors, to the maximum extent practicable and safe, to donate excess apparently wholesome food to nonprofit organizations that provide assistance to food-insecure people in the United States.


## Notes

### Source

Source: 74 FR 11831, Mar. 19, 2009, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority : 41 U.S.C. 1121(b); 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113.

### Source

Source: 56 FR 41737, Aug. 22, 1991, unless otherwise noted.