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FSA looks at why people eat food after use-by dates

By Joe Whitworth on September 17, 2021

Research in the United Kingdom has revealed five themes around consumer attitudes and behaviors toward eating food past the use-by date.

These include date labeling confusion, treating use-by dates as only a guide, and ingrained…
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Briefly: Dating game — Info shortage — Down the drain

By News Desk on December 8, 2017

Every hour of every day people around the world are living with and working to resolve food safety issues. Here is a sampling of current headlines for your consumption, brought to you today with the…
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USDA suggests ‘Best if Used By’ labeling on meat, other foods

By News Desk on December 15, 2016

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

By James Andrews on August 25, 2014

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

By Peter Lehner on September 20, 2013

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'

By Dan Flynn on November 27, 2011

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.

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After standing there…

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