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Need food packaging that detects pathogens... so that we can get rid of meaningless expiration dates

• nyokodo 5y ago
  > so that we can get rid of meaningless expiration dates Not all food decay is driven by pathogens. We’d still need expiration dates for chemical degradation etc.
  • Gibbon1 5y ago
    One of my personal working theories is oxidized fats are bad for you long term.
  • _Microft 5y ago
    The choice of best-before dates does not only depend on actual spoiling of goods but are also chosen to include factors like how a product looks or if the texture is still "acceptable". That is a product can still be perfectly edible at that point but the date was chosen because e.g. chocolate does no longer look good after that time.