Applications and perceptions of date labeling of food
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Open dating of food products has been practiced for decades, and has been key to achieving stock rotation at retail and providing information to consumers. The open date provides a simple communication tool, which may be based on product quality and/or food safety as determined by the manufacturer or retailer. Date marking is generally open but it can be closed (code intended for managing product at retail, and for recall and traceability), and the terminology and applications vary widely around the world. The variation in date labeling terms and uses contributes to substantial misunderstanding by industry and consumers and leads to significant unnecessary food loss and waste, misapplication of limited resources, unnecessary financial burden for the consumer and the food industry, and may also lead to potential food safety risk in regards to perishable foods. A “use by” or similar date cannot be relied on to indicate or guarantee food safety because absolute temperature control of food products throughout the food supply chain cannot be assured. This paper provides an introduction to the issue of food product date labeling and addresses its history in the United States, different terms used and various practices, U.S. and international frameworks, quality compared with safety, adverse impacts of misconceptions about date labeling, and advantages of technological innovations. Collaboration to develop a simple workable solution to address the challenges faced by stakeholders would have tremendous benefit. Conclusions include a call to action to move toward uniformity in date labeling, thereby decreasing confusion among stakeholders and reducing food waste.
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Removing sell-by dates or date labels may alleviate the perceived trade-off between food waste and foodborne illness.
“This may alleviate the perceived trade-off between food waste and foodborne illness (Newsome et al., 2014;Qi and Roe, 2016).”
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By changing its colour based on temperature and the time elapsed since packaging, low quality and potentially unsafe food can be identified.
“By changing its colour based on temperature and the time elapsed since packaging, low quality and potentially unsafe food can be identified (Newsome et al., 2014;Priefer et al., 2013).”
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- Authors
- Newsome, R., Balestrini, C. G., Baum, M. D., Corby, J., Fisher, W., Goodburn, K., Labuza, T. P., Prince, G., Thesmar, H. S., & Yiannas, F.
- Affiliations
- Institute of Food Technologists (US)
- Grocery Manufacturers Assn 1350 I St., NW, Suite 300 Washington DC 20005 U.S.A
- Feeding America (US)
- Assn. of Food & Drug Officials 2550 Kingston Rd., Suite 311 York PA 17402 U.S.A
- Chilled Food Association (GB)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- SAGE Food Safety LLC, P.O. Box 54491 Cincinnati OH 45254 U.S.A
- Food Marketing Inst 2345 Crystal Drive, Suite 800 Arlington VA 22202‐4801 U.S.A
- Walmart (United States) (US)
- Corresponding author
- Newsome, Rosetta
- Venue
- Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-06-21
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 745-769
- ISSN
- 1541-4337 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2099248992
- Cited by
- 189
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 6
- FWCI
- 13.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Walmart
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Keywords
- use-by date, best before date, food safety, food waste, stock rotation, temperature control, consumer perception, terminology standardization, perishable food
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