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<must state “Best if Used By” to indicate peak quality, and “Use By” to designate food safety.> This sounds perfectly sensible and uncontroversial?
by gandalfian 2y ago
<must state “Best if Used By” to indicate peak quality, and “Use By” to designate food safety.>
This sounds perfectly sensible and uncontroversial?
- devonbleak 2y agoFrom a consumer standpoint, yes. From a company-who-abuses-best-by-dates-to-sell-more-product standpoint it's very controversial.
- spease 2y agoThey would already just put “best by” on the product, so it’s not making things any worse that I can see.
- ensignavenger 2y agoIt seems to me like a quibe about verbage. I suppose "sell by" could be interpreted as a supplier telling a store what to do with their own goods. But on the other hand, the supplier has a brand on those goods and has a significant interest in protecting the brand.
- ninalanyon 2y agoThat's how it has been here in Norway for years. And recently producers have started adding phrases like "ofte gode etter", "and often good after" together with See, Smell, Taste. There will typically only be one date and it will have text specifying whether it is "Best Before End" for things that simply decline in quality such as milk and vegetables and "Use By" for things that go bad in ways that will be harmful such as meat.
- 404mm 2y agoI’d prefer just one date: “Use By”. If something is still safe to eat but doesn’t taste great anymore, then that’s past the Use By mark for me.
- heavensteeth 2y agoSome people don't have the liberty of throwing out food because the clock struck 00:00. Similarly, some people don't want to.
- lupusreal 2y agoDo you go by how it tastes, or by the printed use-by date? They're unrelated...