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Masses of food wasted – ‘use by’ dates mislead

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From SFGate by Carolyn Lochhead Updated 6:08 am, Thursday, September 19, 2013

Washington — Americans throw away 40 percent of the food they buy, often because of misleading expiration dates that have nothing to do with safety, said a study released Wednesday by Harvard University Law School and the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.

“The date labeling system is not a system at all,” said NRDC staff scientist Dana Gunders, co-author of the report, the first to assess date labeling laws nationwide. . . . Read Complete Report