# best before

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# still good

7 essential facts about best before dates on food

We’re all obsessed with checking them, but how accurate are they?

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Jul 13th 2015, 6:12 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Do you use food after the expiry date?

A lot of supermarket bosses say they regularly ignore food expiry dates. Do you?

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May 24th 2014, 10:44 AM

# best before

Would you shop in a store for expired food?

A pilot project in the States wants to convert fruit and veg just past their ‘best before’ date into healthy and cheap takeaways. Would that work here?

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Oct 5th 2013, 8:30 PM

# food waste

Want to cut food waste? Check the dates, says safefood

New research by safefood shows that almost a third of consumers believe ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates on food labels mean the same thing.

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Nov 18th 2012, 11:56 AM

# Gross

Almost half of people ignore use-by dates

A third of people said that they ignore use-by dates as long as the food looks and smells ‘okay’.

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Nov 18th 2011, 10:51 AM