Redistributing food for social purposes can be one of the key and desirable ways to reduce food losses. This solution offers many-sided benefits; among them, the most important one is an improved access to food for low-income people. Such actions are common practices in the European countries, e.g. in the United Kingdom and in Spain, where food surpluses are donated to social organizations. The objective of the research study was to apply a risk analysis method to develop an innovative system to reduce food loss and food waste in the retail trade (Model of Limiting Food Losses for the benefit of society – acronym: MOST), i.e. a system understood as the whole of activities and actions undertaken by the Entrepreneur in consultation with the Food Redistribution Organization. The paper presents a summary of the research studies focused on developing a system that would make it possible to identify food losses incurred in the retail trade and to manage the fit-to-be-eaten food for social purposes. The proposed MOST system was developed based on the risk analysis method that is universal for diverse industries and on the HACCP system the use of which is mandatory in food businesses; therefore, the MOST system can be incorporated into the business operations without incurring additional financial expenditures. The system developed includes procedures that appear characteristic for the risk analysis such as risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication. The identification of factors and causes of food losses was analyzed  thoroughly; on the basis thereof Potential Recovery Points are determined, which, after validation, can become Recovery Points.