California shoppers are about to see a quiet but sweeping change on grocery shelves: the familiar "sell by" date is being ...

Roughly nine years ago, while serving as Vice President for Food Safety at the world’s largest food retailer, I surveyed how many different date labels were used by food producers to convey that food ...

Up to half of consumers may decide to pour perfectly good milk down the drain based solely on their glance at the date label on the carton, a new study suggests. Up to half of consumers may decide to ...

The dates printed on milk cartons are probably the six most misunderstood numbers in grocery stores. First, let’s clear one thing up: It’s not an expiration date. Potentially harmful bacteria are ...

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 ...

Confusion about whether food is safe to eat after “sell by,” “use by” and “best by” dates accounts for an estimated 20% of food wasted in the home, according to FDA, which is why the agency and USDA ...