Advocacy and Solutions

ABA Member Professionals Groups guide and build consensus on 50+ regulatory and legislative issues. 

A dedicated team of in-house legislative and regulatory experts promotes, supports, and drives positive results for the highly specific needs of the baking industry.

• Tapping industry subject matter expertise.
• Decades of experience working with policy influencers, legislation, and regulations impacting the baking industry.
• 5 full-time government relations experts supported by a network of specialized counsel, economists, and industry issue alliances.
• Defending the industry against costly government overreach to protect ABA members’ bottom line.

The American Bakers Association is the voice of the baking industry. With our Members' involvement, that voice becomes much louder. ABA facilitates and gives tools to Members so they can be heard.

Members continue to step up their direct involvement in ABA's advocacy efforts. Because of that, the entire baking industry is even more effective moving top priorities over the finish line.

When ABA Members rise up, lawmakers listen. Click here to see the tools ABA provides Members to amplify the industry's priorities to lawmakers.

Bakers' ENERGY STAR Challenge

ABA has teamed with the Environmental Protection Agency to promote the ENERGY STAR® Challenge for the baking industry, a national call-to-action to improve the energy efficiency of America’s industrial facilities. The Challenge recognizes participating manufacturers that improve their energy efficiency by 10 percent or more within five years.  

The Professionals Group that manages this solution is the Energy and Environment Professionals Group.

RECEIVE ENERGY STAR CHALLENGE UPDATES

Testing food safety

Leveraging research from Kansas State University and the University of Georgia, ABA partnered with AIB International to produce a food safety preventative controls validation methodology for representative SKUs – hamburger buns, muffins, whole wheat pan bread, crackers, cookies, and more. These interactive tool takes recorded time and temperature parameters, automatically determining the total process lethality for Salmonella.  

The Professionals Group that manages this solution is the Food Technical Regulatory Affairs professionals.

BAKING PROCESS KILL STEP CALCULATORS

A focus on employee safety

The annual ABA Safety Recognition Program, launched in 2016, honors ABA Member locations that have achieved a high level of safety performance as an ongoing effort to reduce work-related injuries and illnesses. The industry’s dedication to workers’ safety not only proves ABA Member companies’ focus on employees’ well-being but has also helped companies reduce costs associated with fewer injury claims. 

The Professionals Group that manages this solution is the Human Resources and Safety professionals.

RECEIVE ABA SAFETY PROGRAM UPDATES

ABA regularly provides Members with multimedia communications toolkits for issues such as Supply Chain COVID-19, Healthy Baby Month (Jan.), Nutrition Month (Mar.), and National Bread Month (Nov.).

See all messaging toolkits.