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 behavior.
Thirty people from England, Wales and Northern Ireland took part in two interviews and
Continue Reading FSA looks at why people eat food after use-by dates
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Ignoring the dates across the pond
Billing it as a
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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 specific information.
Although infant formula is the only food product that must carry product dating
Continue Reading USDA suggests ‘Best if Used By’ labeling on meat, other foods
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 (IAFP) held earlier this month in Indianapolis, IN.
As Leib describes it, up to 50
Continue Reading IAFP Interview: Leib on Expiration Dates and Food 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, wasted – not just on our plates, but in our refrigerators and pantries, in our
Continue Reading Date Labels on Food are Unrelated to Food Safety and Lead to Massive Waste
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 thinking for a while, I got to wonder what was really on all those pantry
