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The sense

(and nonsense)

No one likes to throw away perfectly edible food, but confusion over labelling
is fuelling the amount we chuck out at home. The rules are changing, though,

and Clare Finney wraps up the latest advice on best-before and use-by dates

ere’s a sentence I never edible”. I can’t conceive of doing former prime minister – but it’s still
thought I’d commit to otherwise: I grew up with a father out on jam mould. When May’s
H paper: I’m with Theresa who would cut the mould out of fruit spreadable story broke last year, the
May. Not on her politics, but with and took a sniff-it-and-see approach Food Standards Agency (FSA)
her cavalier approach to jam. to milk and butter. Today, the advised that food obviously
When she was PM, she revealed edibility of eggs long after their ‘best containing mould should not be
to ministers during a Cabinet before’ date are the hill I choose to eaten. A professor of bacteriology
discussion on food waste that she die on, while my boyfriend attempts on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme
scrapes the mould off the top of old to pry them from my hands. countered, saying that he too would
jam and finds the rest “perfectly The jury may have decided on our scrape off surface mould “depending