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Re:Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain by benj111 on Friday April 19, 2019 @05:08PM (#19703014)
And that's why I use my own judgement when deciding if its ok to eat.

The best before probably takes into account the worst case and is set low accordingly. I go to the effort to store bread appropriately so that lower bound is no longer particularly relevant to me.

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Re:Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain by thaumasiotes on Friday April 19, 2019 @08:21PM (#19704084)
> The best before probably takes into account the worst case and is set low accordingly.

Absolutely not, if you think bread going stale is relevant to the expiration date. (Which it isn't.)

If you leave bread exposed to the air, it will go stale almost immediately, long before a one-week expiration period has elapsed. The expiration date is obsolete as soon as you open the product.

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