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Edesia rehiring staff, ramping up production after State Department places order

EDESIA CEO Navyn Salem stands by boxes of Plumpy’Nut, a lifesaving food product for malnourished children. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL PERSSON

NORTH KINGSTOWN – After a six-month pause in federal procurement, Rhode Island-based humanitarian aid agency Edesia Inc. received a major order from the U.S. State Department, the nonprofit announced Wednesday. The order placed Tuesday includes 11,285 metric tons of its Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food, Plumpy’Nut paste, that is enough to treat 818,000 severely malnourished children across

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