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food packaging dates
Coverage of food packaging dates in the Nexus archive.
- Stop throwing away perfectly good meat by making common mistake: scientists
Scientists are rethinking food packaging dates to reduce food waste, economic losses, and environmental impacts from discarded food.
- Scientists say you've been throwing away perfectly good meat because of one common mistake
Scientists at Auburn University are rethinking food packaging dates to reduce food waste, revealing that sell-by dates for meat are often overly conservative and based on color changes rather than safety. Using microbiology and AI, they tracked microbial changes in ground beef to predict spoilage more accurately, aiming to prevent unnecessary meat discards and economic losses.