Re:Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain
by ValentineC on Friday April 19, 2019 @11:33AM
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> But is a small chance of dying from eating toxic bacteria worth it?
The parent is probably talking about food that's not more than a few days past expiry, since they worked in a grocery store. The risk from not following a mostly-arbitrary date is not much higher if properly stored than say, eating improperly-stored food.
The parent is probably talking about food that's not more than a few days past expiry, since they worked in a grocery store. The risk from not following a mostly-arbitrary date is not much higher if properly stored than say, eating improperly-stored food.
A student died eating pasta stored at room temperature for five days: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6638715/20-year-old...
Things might have turned out differently if it was stored in the fridge.