The demise of best-before dates

[didds]

The problem with "best before" dates is that it extends "nanny statism", encourages lack of thinking, and causes a lot of unnecessary food waste..

Notwithstanding that BBE dates are a whim of the packager etc. and not necessarily reflective of anything definitive.

Ask any bottle shop/bar wrt BBEs on bottled/canned beer as an example (amongst many)

didds

[Alaric]

I think that Morrisons are going to remove the Use by dates from milk.

I thnk the reality is less exciting. Instead of remving the date entirely, they are going to change the small print from "use by" to "best before".