Food dating is utterly unregulated, and unreliable
(NEWSER) - Forget that date on the meat you bought last week; if it looks good and smells good, you can probably just eat it. Expiration dates are just about meaningless, argues Nadia Arumugam on Slate , because food’s deterioration has a lot more to do with how it’s stored than for how long. Manufacturers tend to date their products assuming the laziest, dumbest possible consumers are buying them, according to one food scientist. More»
