Most Americans occasionally throw away food just because of the date on the label and many always do. But these 'sell by' or ...

Most are not indicators of whether food is safe to eat. Rather, they are used for store inventory purposes or to determine ...

The FDA wants to change the way foods are labeled to reduce food waste, including potentially ending the use of sell-by dates ...

There’s a good chance that you or someone you know has trashed perfectly good food over confusion about date labels. Now, the ...

USDA and FDA do not broadly impose any standardized food date labeling requirements. With the exception of infant formula, FDA does not require food companies to place "expired by," "use by," "best ...

The FDA is trying to find out why food companies use the labels they do. Food waste and food safety experts share what these labels mean and how to reduce food waste while making sure food is fresh.

Trump could make use of the food date label information gathered to help consumers stretch their food budgets further in a time of high prices, ReFED’s Gunders says. “So if this is something ...

“Consumers regularly misinterpret date labels to be indicating the safety of food when in fact they are not,” she says. The three most commonly used labels are: “use by,” “best if used ...