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As Director of Nutrition at The Greater
Boston Food Bank, Tara Hatala,
Registered Dietitian, is responsible for servicing over 600 member
agencies and identifying the nutrient content for the purchase of $12
million of food distributed statewide through the Massachusetts
Emergency Food Assistance Program. She developed ClicknCookSM, a
searchable web site recipe database specific to the products
distributed by The Food Bank. Hatala also assigns nutrition rankings to
over 28 millions pounds of food and grocery products acquired annually
by The Food Bank and has developed, implemented and evaluates systems
changes and nutrition education and food safety workshops for adults
and youth. She is also a ServSafe® instructor.
 Before moving to
Boston, Hatala worked with other hunger relief
organizations including the Food Bank of Central New York. Her efforts
include co-authoring the Just Say Yes to Fruits and Vegetables’
“Handbook for Food Pantry Providers” and encouraging individuals to
increase consumption of fruits and vegetables through food
demonstrations. As a public health educator with the Onondaga County
Health Department, she implemented a cardiovascular disease prevention
program in dozens of worksites and led a network of agencies to adopt
childhood overweight prevention practices.
She is a member of the American Dietetic
Association’s Hunger and
Environmental Nutrition and Public Health and Community Nutrition
Dietetic Practice Groups, the Massachusetts Dietetic Association and
Massachusetts Nutrition Board.
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