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USDA suggests ‘Best if Used By’ labeling on meat, other foods
New labeling guidance from the USDA that is designed to decrease waste by resolving consumer confusion about “best by” and “sell by” dates on food may also boost in-home food safety practices by providing more
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IAFP Interview: Leib on Expiration Dates and Food Waste
Harvard School of Law lecturer Emily Broad Leib sat down with Food Safety News to discuss problems related to food waste and expiration dates at the 2014 conference for the International Association for Food Protection
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Date Labels on Food are Unrelated to Food Safety and Lead to Massive Waste
This originally appeared Sept. 18 on Switchboard, the staff blog for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Forty percent of the food we produce in this country never gets eaten. That’s nearly half our food,
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Letter From The Editor: 'Expired'
Last year I started what I thought was a very excellent food safety tradition. I did the Thanksgiving week shopping and discovered there was no room in the pantry or anywhere else.
After standing there