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According to food safety experts, most spoiled foods aren’t hazardous to a person’s health if consumed.
This wasted food is a significant part of the staggering 130 billion pounds of food that goes to waste in this country every year.
In part, this is why two of the most influential groups in the food industry, the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute, are now advising their members to abolish this labeling practice – specifically “Expires on” and “Sell by” warnings.
In their place, the food industry groups are asking major food manufacturers and retailers to use two alternate labels.
“From a food-science perspective, it is difficult to define a food product that is ‘natural’ because the food has probably been processed in some way,” Lauren Kotwicki of the Food and Drug Administration recently explained to USA Today.
They have a longstanding policy that interprets it to mean nothing artificial or synthetic has been added to a food that wouldn’t normally be expected in that food.
T are also lots of labels on food not even intended for consumer use.