Many Americans open the refrigerator, spot a date on a carton or package, and immediately hesitate. Toss it or trust it?

Date labels. Expiration dates. Best-by dates. Whatever you call them, at some point, you’ve probably squinted at those tiny dot-matrix-printed numbers and wondered: “Does this mean my cheese might ...

Loading up your pantry with canned goods is resourceful, but what if you forget about one way in the back? How long past its ...

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me about food expiration dates, I could afford to buy a lot of the milk that gets tossed each week just for being one day “past.” These questions come in ...

When you open your fridge, how often do you check the dates on your food? The yogurt container says it's still good for a few more days, but the label on the half-used barbecue sauce says it was best ...

Learn what expiration dates really mean to avoid tossing good food. But hold on a second. Did you know that food may still be safe to eat after the expiration date? These dates can be confusing, and ...

There’s a good chance that you or someone you know has trashed perfectly good food over confusion about date labels. Now, the US government is looking for a fix. A group of four federal agencies, ...