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Flaws in Food Labeling System Lead to Enormous Food Waste in America
"Enjoy by," "best before" and "sell by" labels on the packaging of US foodstuffs often have little connection to the date the food actually becomes spoiled, leading to a gross amount of perfectly good food being thrown away each day, a recent study by the Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard University reports. The study implicates wasteful and unregulated marketing practices and offers suggestions on how to better set food expiration dates in the US.
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