Tag: Best Before dates

M&S Removes Best Before Dates Across Fruit And Veg In Bid To Tackle Food Waste

Stuart Mitchell

M&S is removing best before dates from a range of fresh produce to help reduce in-store and household food waste. Best before dates will be removed from the labelling of over 300 fruit and vegetable products – 85% of M&S’ produce offering – including commonly wasted items apples, potatoes and broccoli. Dates will be replaced with a new code which M&S store colleagues will use to ensure freshness and quality is maintained. The change, which is being rolled out across all M&S UK stores from this week, is designed to…

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Best Before dates shouldn’t be a barrier to redistribution

Stuart Mitchell

WRAP publishes new guidance underlining the fact that food past its Best Before date remains safe, and perfectly good to eat for days, weeks, months or even years after the date – depending on the type of food and if it has been stored correctly. The guidance aims to increase the amount of food made available by businesses for redistribution by ensuring that all food items, including any approaching or past the Best Before date, are considered for redistribution – and that current policies that might not allow this are…

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