Source: Jared Strong, NC POLICY WATCH, 7/19/22


People need better guidance on food packaging to decide whether or not their food that might have languished on refrigerator or cupboard shelves is still safe to eat, members of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and their witnesses said Friday. “The 'use by,’ 'best by,’ 'sell by,’ 'enjoy by,’ the many words you see to describe the dates on food are actually quite confusing to consumers, and consumers are misinterpreting those dates to mean that they are supposed to throw that food out,” said Dana Gunders, executive director of ReFED, a national organization that studies food waste.

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