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If you’ve looked at the date label on food packaging and asked yourself what exactly “best by” means, you’re not alone. It’s confusing! There’s a lot of guesswork when it comes to the date plastered on food packaging and, more often than not, it leaves it to the shopper’s discretion to decide whether a food is safe for consumption.

Currently, there are over 10 phrases for food labels: sell by, use by, expires on, best before, better if used by, best by, best when used by, enjoy by, fresh until, use or freeze by. But now, two food industry groups propose narrowing down the list of labels to two standardized options: best if used by and use by.

That sounds much easier, doesn’t it?

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