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Re:Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain by DanBC on Friday April 19, 2019 @04:45AM (#19697979)
In this post you confuse "use by" with "best before", even though the difference is clearly described in the linked article.

USE BY is product safety information. The risk increases after the use by date.

BEST BEFORE is product quality information. There's not much risk but the taste and nutrition will degrade over time.

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Re:Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain by benj111 on Friday April 19, 2019 @02:09PM (#19701641)
I didn't confuse. Although I did change from what my parent mentioned.

Although it would be nice to have the time to check best befores and use bys of everything I put in my trolley, in practice its basically meat and milk, purely to check that they will last until I want to use them.

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