Never Eat After They Expire

[Mike Taylor]

" 13 Foods You Should Never Eat After They Expire, According To Food Safety Experts. "
Here's what experts have to say.

Deciphering the "use by" dates on food products is a lot less straightforward than just checking the calendar. Your Greek yogurt is a couple days past its expiration date, but still passes the sniff test. Should you really toss the entire carton? In this economy? After all, groceries are 10 percent more expensive than they were last year and about 30 to 40 percent of the U.S. food chain goes to waste.

"Generally speaking, expiration dates in the U.S. don't mean a lot," says Laurie Beyranevand, the director of the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School. "What's even more confusing is that they're written in a few different ways on a product label."

You might see some labels that use a "best before" date while others go with a "sell by" date. Typically, the labels signal the date that manufacturers think the quality of the food may no longer be at its peak, but they don't usually address a product's safety, Beyranevand says. The expiration dates on food items are often conservative, too, says food safety attorney Jory Lange. As a result, we end up throwing away a lot of safe food out of fear that it's rotten.

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