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MSE News: Food shake-up could see 'best before' labels changed

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"New guidance on food labelling will be issued by the Government in a bid to cut down on food being unnecessarily wasted ..."
"New guidance on food labelling will be issued by the Government in a bid to cut down on food being unnecessarily wasted ..."
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& while there are dates on products people will always choose the products with the best dates, ie the longest use by or sell by, or the newest made on....
Also as this is only guidance being issued by the government, no doubt each supplier will have their own interpretation of the guidance and the result will be each supplier choosing how they want to show the dates and the consumer being even more confused.
No need for 'best before' if it simply means a chocolate bar tastes a little more bland.
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my sister is obsessed with them and wont touch anything once it hits that date its such a waste
Much of the "everything else" is packaged, so we can't see or smell it until we open the package. So how do we know it is "worth" buying?
Do we go round the supermarket, opening stuff to see if it's still OK?
Please Martin nsure that info you are giving comes from the people who know what they are talking about!!
Lol exactly!! Oh yes I can smell those miniscule bacteria growing through the pack!!
To me a date on a food item tells the supermarket that if they haven't sold it by that date they are going to have to give the consumer a good incentive to buy it. And so far the only incentive the supermarkets have come up with is reducing the price, often to ridiculously low amounts.
I don't think the problem is with the dates, it's the generation of people we brought up with the government telling them what to do/what not to do all the time. They have been told so much they can't decide things for themselves.
I think it's more to do with them ignoring stuff you say because food safety has gone so far over the top.