Roughly nine years ago, while serving as Vice President for Food Safety at the world’s largest food retailer, I surveyed how many different date labels were used by food producers to convey that food ...

When the date label on your food gets close to the actual calendar date, a lot of people throw the food away. If you're one of them, food safety experts say you're wasting hundreds, even thousands of ...

There’s a good chance that you or someone you know has trashed perfectly good food over confusion about date labels. Now, the U.S. government is looking for a fix. A group of four federal agencies, ...

A study from Science Daily revealed that people who are confused about food date labels are likely to waste food by throwing it away too early. The study calls the confusion "widespread," saying many ...