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Food Sell-By Dates: What They Really Tell You

Marie de Vera   |

Dec 11, 2015 12:03 PM EST

For most people, "sell by" dates indicates the time when a product expires and should be discarded. It is therefore easy to tell when to throw out food, but it turns out that in most situation the tags "sell by" or "best used by" are not automatic warnings that the food is spoiled.