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Case Shows Expiration Dates for Stores, not Safety

By Suzanne Schreck on June 7, 2010

New York consumers got a wake-up call this month when Andy Campbell reported in The Brooklyn Paper that a Brooklyn Heights Key Food store that had been accused of extending “sell-by” dates on meat was

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Ignore Expiration Dates?

By Zach Mallove on February 23, 2010

Do expiration dates really matter? Some judge the quality of perishable food using the sniff test, keeping it refrigerated until smells rotten or rancid, while others toss the food out the minute it hits 12:00

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A Lesson in Food Product Dating

By Suzanne Schreck on October 14, 2009

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), there is no uniform or universally accepted system used for food dating in the United States.  More than 20 states require dating of certain foods, but other

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