Monday, June 02, 2014
"'Best-before' labels on rice, coffee and pasta reach their sell-by date"
This issue is not isolated in Europe.
That being said, can we not know or learn when and what we should not eat, as previous generations did?...
That being said, can we not know or learn when and what we should not eat, as previous generations did?...
In the U.K. Telegraph, Bruno Waterfield writes about this issue:
" The European Union is poised to scrap compulsory 'best before' labels on coffee, rice, dry pasta, hard cheeses, jams and pickles to help reduce the estimated 100 million tons of food wasted across Europe each year.
Officials of the European Commission will table proposals next month allowing national governments to extend the list of foods that do not require best-before dates, in a move which they believe will mean 15 million tons less food a year is discarded by households wrongly worried that it is no longer fit for consumption. "
