Expiration Dates Are Fake

The Dates on Your Food Mean Nothing That expiration date printed on your yogurt isn't a safety deadline set by federal regulators. Outside of infant formula, the dates on American groceries are mostly voluntary manufacturer estimates about taste and peak quality, leading households to toss tons of perfectly safe groceries every single year. Here is how grocery labels actually work, the crucial difference between spoilage microbes and real foodborne pathogens, and the rare situations where the printed numbers actually matter. #FoodWaste #FoodSafety #ConsumerAdvice Stock footage via Pexels (pexels.com): Alena Darmel, RDNE Stock project, cottonbro studio, SHVETS production, Kiwi and Camera, In Old News LLC, Edward Jenner, Taka Soyama, TimePRO TV, Kampus Production, Circuit Occidental, Gustavo Fring, Mikhail Nilov, Ahimsa - OM, Engin Akyurt, MART PRODUCTION, Dubang chang, Kindel Media, Luis Quintero, Pixabay and 34 more.