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False notions that food is unsafe. Some 91% of consumers occasionally throw food away based on the "sell by" date out of a mistaken concern for food safety even though none of the date labels actually indicate food is unsafe to eat.

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The NRDC says to refrigerate your food and pay attention to the expiration dates all of the time.

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According to the National Resources Defense Council, a New York City-based environmental watchdog agency 40% of all edible food in America is wasted each year.

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According to the FSIS  Product dates are not safe to use (except in baby foods). These dates are not a mandatory to put on foods except for baby foods. So people can put false expiration dates on these without worrying.

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A lot of people think that when something has hit its expiration date it goes instantly bad and that is not true for all foods.

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I had milk that was expired and it smelled horrible so I had to throw it out

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To prevent a lot of food waste, Norway made their products use something else other than "use-by". They are saying "best-before" and this makes consumers think that they need to use this before instead of saying use-by which makes less of a rush on the consumer.

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A person who buys a product

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Recommended date to use the product for the best quality

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Recommended date tells the store how long it can display the food for sale

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On average Americans waste 640$ of food each year. 20% of the food waste is caused by misleading expiration dates; according to a British study

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The date when a product goes bad

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To not be valid after a certain time period

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Tells how long you can store the food without being opened