Episode 85: Food Date Labeling with Dana Gunders - a podcast by Heritage Radio Network

This week on What Doesnt Kill You, Katy Keiffer is talking expiration date labeling with Dana Gunders of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Recently, the NRDC and The Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic just released a report on food waste in the US called The Dating Game: How Confusing Food Date Labels Lead to Food Waste in America, and Dana is on the program to review the report and dispel concerns regarding food labeling and food safety. Find out what organizations are in charge of determining use by and sell by dates, and how governmental regulation could potentially lead to better consistency. Learn how these dates mislead consumers and often lead to unnecessary food waste. How is date labeling also tied up in the controversies surrounding GMO labeling? How should labeling differ between fresh and processed foods? How do food labels affect grocers bottom line? Find out all of this and more on this weeks edition of What Doesnt Kill You! Thanks to our sponsor, Underground Meats. Music provided by Dead Stars. The FDA has the authority under current law to provide standardization for food labeling if they wanted to. [8:15] Food-borne illness is a result of contamination, not its age. [11:00] -- Dana Gunders on What Doesnt Kill You

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