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Morrisons, the UK retailer, scraps 'use by' date on milk in favour of sniff test
- david_allison 5y agoA large number of UK consumers don't understand the difference between 'best before' and 'use by', this sadly won't make as much difference as it could. > British home cooks threw away a whopping 720m eggs in 2018[0], with one in three saying they will bin any carton that is out of date. Yet eggs in the UK carry a best-before date, not a use-by. > All those discarded eggs show that most people still don’t understand the difference. If 74% of respondents to a 2016 Women’s Institute (WI) survey knew that “use by” was about safety, only 45% knew that “best before” wasn’t. The waste reduction charity Wrap has found that as much as 30% of the food binned for being “past date” had a best-before; ie, it probably didn’t need to be binned. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/apr/17/the-truth-about-expired-food-how-best-before-dates-create-a-waste-mountain https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/apr/17/the-truth-about... [0] https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/apr/09/britons-throw-away-720m-eggs-a-year-over-best-before-date-fears https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/apr/09/britons-throw-a...
- verall 5y agoYes, it's hilarious this is being marketed as reducing food waste, when the new dates will be "best by" and most likely sooner than the use by date. Increase in waste and profit...
- llampx 5y agoSo are customers supposed to sniff the milk in the store? Wouldn't it be sealed and if not, have a huge risk of bacteria getting in and spoiling it before it would otherwise go bad? Doesn't seem very well thought through to me.