Food safety is sad to waste food health...

U.S. law on food production, production, processing and sales of a wide range of requirements in detail. Federal agency in charge of food safety are two: the United States Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for meat and poultry food rules, and Food and Drug Administration is responsible for developing packaged foods, processed foods, agricultural products, seafood, milk, eggs and other regulations, and labels. Food adulteration strictly prohibited by law, the so-called adulteration, mainly refers to the increase in food and poor quality or additional components to increase production or as a means of reducing costs....


Americans are very concerned about the food is out of date, according to the University of Arizona researchers Timothy ? Jones (Timothy Jones) study, a family of four American households throw away an average of about 600 dollars in food, representing the food purchased 14%, mainly fruits, vegetables and milk. A recent online survey, Americans are milk, cheese, mayonnaise (mayonnaise), yogurt, eggs, special care is out of date. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, "Food and loss of the project" (Food Loss Project) estimated that about 25% of the domestic production of food are thrown away, some are to be disposed of at the farm, some are to be disposed of in the supermarket, there are no are disposed of fewer restaurants, but most are bought by customers at home, do not eat at home wasted.


U.S. has no national uniform labeling system for food production date, but more than 20 states require that production and sales company must be clearly marked with dates. In general, business-to-date sales of food labeling laws take two: one marked "sell date" (Sell By Date), one "use date" (Use By Date), the two dates are in fact not refer to food "inedible" date. If you marked "use date" means that prior to this date, whether the quality of food taste, texture, appearance, smell and nutrition are the best, after that date, taste, appearance and nutritional quality begins to decline in other areas, but not inedible, the quality of different types of drop of the food is different. If it is marked "sell date" means that after this date should be the food business under the frame, because after that date, the quality of food began to decline....

Such as milk, if properly refrigerated, milk can "sell date" after about a week or so is safe to drink, but will decline in nutritional value and taste. Another example is eggs, in the refrigerated case, you can "sell date" three to five weeks after the safety of food. If the customer can correct the date on food packaging to understand the true meaning of it, you might reduce the amount of unnecessary waste. Reduce waste of food not only part of the family to save money, but also means less use of landfill, reducing soil erosion and fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide use, etc., to reduce the production of fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide production, the corresponding reduce energy and raw material consumption, which means reducing greenhouse gas emissions, on the personal, social, environment is an extremely good thing.