Most Americans have stood in front of the fridge wondering what all those dates really mean. In the U.S., date labels like ...

Food scientists say most packaged foods are safe if they look, smell, and taste normal. Exceptions exist particularly for ...

Date labels. Expiration dates. Best-by dates. Whatever you call them, at some point, you’ve probably squinted at those tiny dot-matrix-printed numbers and wondered: “Does this mean my cheese might ...

Expiration dates aren't expiration dates. That's what Andrea Collins, a sustainable food system specialist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said about the dozens of differently phrased date ...

Raise your hand if you fully understand the food expiration date labels in California’s grocery stores. That’s what we thought. Misleading and unclear expiration dates cause Americans to throw out ...

Americans toss out roughly $7 billion worth of food annually because of confusion over expiration dates, according to ReFED, a nonprofit focused on food waste reduction. But here’s the kicker: most of ...

PARAMUS, New Jersey (WABC) -- Officials in New Jersey are taking new steps to standardize and improve food date labels to reduce food waste and help families save money on groceries. Congressman Josh ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law aimed at clearing up the meanings of expiration dates on foods. Assembly Bill 660 will require most expiration date labeling on food packaging to either use the ...

Expiration dates influence how food is purchased, stored, and disposed of. In the United States, more than one-third of all ...