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Re:Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain by DanBC on Friday April 19, 2019 @04:37AM (#19697946)
Each year about 3000 people in the US die from food poisoning. About 100,000 people are hospitalised, and some of them will have been caused permanent harm.
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Re:Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain by thereisnospork on Friday April 19, 2019 @02:20PM (#19701729)
To add: even if we throw out a few hundred million dollars worth of food, that's more than a fair trade for a few thousand lives and 40x that in hospitalizations.
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