“DESTROY” stickers were affixed this week to hundreds of cases of U.S.-branded food aid — 15,000 pounds’ worth — that have languished for months in a Georgia warehouse and then expired before they could be sent overseas to famine-stricken areas like Sudan.

And Mana Nutrition’s warehouse holds plenty more of the peanut paste, a crucial element in treating malnutrition. A $50 million supply has been stacked for months in the nonprofit’s facility in Pooler, a short drive from Savannah, caught in the chaos as the Trump administration upended foreign aid and never shipped it. The food could still help 60 million people, Mana estimates.

“This is a giant glut,” chief operating officer David Todd Harmon said. “All contracted. All bought and paid for. It’s just not been picked up.”

A State Department memo in May signaled that more than 60,000 metric tons of commodities were sitting in warehouses in the United States and around the world and that an “urgent” plan would begin to shift some of it. The logjam followed the Trump administration’s breakneck dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, slashing more than 80% of its programming.

Those cuts deeply disrupted a once-robust pipeline that funneled more than $1 billion in commodities and nutritional supplements to crisis zones.

Mana’s decision to jettison part of its food cache was the third instance in recent weeks in which nutrition and family planning assistance slated for overseas was marked for destruction. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill, aid groups, and activists have voiced outrage, with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, calling the situation “indefensible.”

“These commodities were purchased by U.S. taxpayers to save lives — not to sit in warehouses or be incinerated,” Shaheen said in a statement.

The State Department memo, obtained by the Washington Post, noted that senior official Jeremy Lewin had approved moving 13,719 metric tons of commodities that “will expire within the next 14 months” and proposed focusing on the items “most at risk of spoilage if not moved in the next month.”

The other 47,991 metric tons in warehouses were to be transferred to the department for “continued management and implementation of programs,” the memo detailed.

Less than two weeks ago, the State Department issued a $52 million grant to the U.N. World Food Program — the key distributor of U.S. food aid overseas — to ship 12,000 metric tons of fortified cereal, vegetable oil, rice, and yellow peas from warehouses in Djibouti and Houston to targets in Africa and Haiti. Gaza is not among them, despite the mass starvation there due to Israel’s months-long siege.

A department statement Friday said those supplies had been prepositioned to draw upon for emerging needs and “were not delayed in delivery to any destination because they were not yet allocated to any specific programs.” Even so, an inspector general review of the warehouses is underway because of concerns that commodities may have been spoiled or damaged.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured lawmakers in May that no food aid would be wasted, but some of what is shipping out now could take months, not weeks, to reach its destination, aid experts say. That may be too late for people battling extreme hunger in Africa and the Middle East.

“For severely malnourished children in particular, they cannot have one week disruption in feeding, even that is too much for them,” said Kathrin Lauer, a 32-year veteran of USAID, who lost her job this year. “Even if Secretary Rubio says nobody has died doesn’t mean it’s true.”