American Red Cross

Address:

• http://www.redcross.org

General Notes

• Provides links to services and information on a wide range of relief topics.

Strengths

• Four publications provide especially helpful information related to food and water:

• Disaster Supplies Kit

• Food and Water in an Emergency

• Food Safety in a Power Outage

• Food Supplies in Case of Disaster

• You can locate your local Red Cross office via a search option on the main site.

Limitations

• Publications listed above are difficult to locate going through the Red Cross site.  Instead, link to them directly via the Information by Topic or the Information by Publication Title pages of this UW Food and Nutrition website.

Source:

• The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization that provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.

Date Last Modified 11/02/2006

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