Monday, December 16, 2013
"Americans throw away billions of dollars of food each year..."
This doesn't surprise me.
For a long time I've thought the dates on products to be a fear based marketing tool.
After all, when you throw it away, you generally buy another...
For a long time I've thought the dates on products to be a fear based marketing tool.
After all, when you throw it away, you generally buy another...
In a Reuters article in the U.K. Daily Mail the end result is discussed:
"Americans throw out billions of dollars of food every year because they falsely believe 'sell-by' and 'best-before' dates on package labels indicate food safety, researchers have found.
A study published by Harvard Law School and the Natural Resources Defense Council found that dates printed on packaged foods, which help retailers cycle through stocked products and allow manufacturers to indicate when a product is at its peak freshness, are inconsistent.
They confuse consumers, leading many to throw out food before it actually goes bad."
