California bans sell-by dates
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California bans sell-by dates
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Re: California bans sell-by dates
#2> To adhere with the requisite language outlined, any food products with a date label — with the exception of infant formula, eggs, beer, and malt beverages — must state “Best if Used By” to indicate peak quality, and “Use By” to designate food safety.
I mean, personally a big fan. I recently started seeing "Packed on " and like wtf does that even mean. Was the corn also picked on that date?
Like these dates have been on products for as long as I can remember. Might was well have some rules around them finally.
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#3If I see a sell-by date, I only use it to compare between individual items. If there's a shelf with bread and two items have different sell-by dates, I choose the one with the later sell-by date.
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#4I wonder, do sell-by dates harm the bottom line of groceries due to more unsold perishable goods, or does that cost get passed back to the vendors? Either way this rule would seem to be advantageous to either the retailer or the wholesaler. Perhaps that helped to get it passed.
Re: California bans sell-by dates
#5> To adhere with the requisite language outlined, any food products with a date label — with the exception of infant formula, eggs, beer, and malt beverages — must state “Best if Used By” to indicate peak quality, and “Use By” to designate food safety. I mean, personally a big fan. I recently started seeing "Packed on " and like wtf does that even mean. Was the corn also picked on that date? Like these dates have bee…
For me the one exception would be coffee. I'd much rather see a "roasted" date than some "best if used by" date.
Re: California bans sell-by dates
#6> To adhere with the requisite language outlined, any food products with a date label — with the exception of infant formula, eggs, beer, and malt beverages — must state “Best if Used By” to indicate peak quality, and “Use By” to designate food safety. I mean, personally a big fan. I recently started seeing "Packed on " and like wtf does that even mean. Was the corn also picked on that date? Like these dates have bee…
For me the one exception would be coffee. I'd much rather see a "roasted" date than some "best if used by" date.
I don't think this law forbids producers from adding supplemental dates? So a coffee container could conceivably have both dates
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#7I wonder, do sell-by dates harm the bottom line of groceries due to more unsold perishable goods, or does that cost get passed back to the vendors? Either way this rule would seem to be advantageous to either the retailer or the wholesaler. Perhaps that helped to get it passed.
When I worked in a grocerie store.
The bread guy took back the unsold breads and we were only charged for the sold ones and credited the unsold.
This was in Montréal 20 years ago.
Not sure how it is today and I have no idea in California.
But since it passed I'm guessing it was thr same and now this would be an obvious advantage for the sellers since this would assuré they sell everything.
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#8Yet another surprise. I wish CA lawmakers would stop operating in the dark.
Re: California bans sell-by dates
#9If I see a sell-by date, I only use it to compare between individual items. If there's a shelf with bread and two items have different sell-by dates, I choose the one with the later sell-by date.
I pick the older one to make sure the supply chain still works well.
Re: California bans sell-by dates
#10I wonder, do sell-by dates harm the bottom line of groceries due to more unsold perishable goods, or does that cost get passed back to the vendors? Either way this rule would seem to be advantageous to either the retailer or the wholesaler. Perhaps that helped to get it passed.
I worked in a grocery coop and it depended on the vendor. For some, they controlled how much stock we carried and would take back anything that didn’t sell. For things that we ordered directly and chose how much to carry, we were responsible for expired food costs.