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huangc10 on Feb 16, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: A change to the sell-by dates on food

In case you missed it (since there are a lot of quotes being thrown around in the article...), the new standard will be either:

"Use By: (date)", or "Best if Used By: (date)"

However, the article still claims there are no guarantees of adoption.

sarreph on Feb 16, 2017 [–]

> "Use By: (date)", or "Best if Used By: (date)"

Since one contains the other, seems like this could be open to packaging errors. Much better to use an alternative verb for 'best if used by', i.e. 'display until'.

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