Why do governments require absurd “best by” dates on food?

Yoghurt “use by” or “best by” dates are bullshit, yoghurts last a lot longer. Same with mustard or ketchup or a lot of canned veggies or dried food.

Why don’t they just give some kind of range as in “best before December 26, 2018 but can likely be used until February 26, 2019 or even beyond”?

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because then some jew will blame them for his upset tummy and demand 6 million shekel compensation.

I don't understand why stuff like cheese and dried sausage has to be refridgerated when they were invented as a way to preserve food thousands of years before refridgeration was even invented

Because they don't care and want you to keep consuming.

Total fag yogurt

Best by is the last date you can say with 100% confidence that every item in that lot will be fresh enough.

honestly Im surprised that they dont add chemicals that purposefully spoil the food by a certain date to make sure you keep buying/replacing it

That’s why you write it out so people can make their own decision whether to sniff the thing and discard it or eat it.

Jesus, why don’t we stop treating people like babies? I got spices in large jars from my late grandma which are “best by January 1982” and they are still good.

>Yoghurt
>with a fucking 'h'
stop speaking languages you can't understand.

>fage
More like sage

I've seen them put expiry dates on saline solution.
fucking salt water, expires according to the jew.

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There is lots of stuff you don’t have to or shouldn’t put in the fridge. For some reason idiots still do it.

Potatoes, tomatos, cucumber, aubergine (eggplant), eggs, mustard, kraut, ketchup etc., nothing needs to be refridgerated.

real yoghurt or sour milk as it is known in my country doesn't last that long at all, what they sell you is something made from dry milk and filled with preservatives

Who is this ugly hog in the gif? Fucking disgusting.

And it is completely misleading as millenials just look at the date and bin it as they have no clue that a shitton of food can be used well beyond the date printed on it. Fresh meat is likely one of the few exceptions which shouldn’t be consumed past the due date.

This is one of those non-semetic cases where "the nose knows."

It's to make you think that you need to eat it soon and keep buying more overtime instead of in bulk.

Shut your face mutt

Yoghurt

Besser so, Arschloch. Hier heissts Joghurt. Bist jetzt zufrieden, ungebildeter Ami?

“Yogurt” lol amerimutts are retarded

My country has to import food. It's heartbreaking and makes me want to die. I feel like Australia is beggar poverty nation if shithole like China is sending us their exports

Which food do you import and why can’t you produce them yourself? Your country is huge, plenty of land to grow crops and animals and plenty of fish in the sea. Don’t you eat fish like the Japanese?

>ketchup
Shit starts tasting different in a week after opening, regardless of what best before says. That's why I only buy the small bottles, I dislike the side taste it develops...

that is a sell-by date to increase profits for the manufacturer, it doesn't magically start to rot on the predicted date

only pasteurized and very moist cheeses have to be refrigerated. Aged unpasteurized cheeses sit at room temperature for years before you eat them

eggs must be refrigerated in North America because they go through a washing process which ironically exposes them to bacteria more rapidly. Cold eggs also fry better

Because of the acidity of the tomatoes and vinegar, and the amount of sugar, ketchup has a pretty long shelf life. An unopened container of ketchup can remain stored for up to two years past the printed expiration date. Once the bottle is opened, it will last for another year in the refrigerator.

we produce everything at farms, farmers profit from export, then serfs eat import SHIT while farmer wonders why his sons don't want wives.

don't be stupid best by dates essentially mean nothing

if they're not retarded they can already do that
if they are retarded the date isn't going to help

>Jesus, why don’t we stop treating people like babies?
We lost the ability to do that when women got increased rights in the early 90s. Prove me wrong.

>eggs must be refrigerated in North America because they go through a washing process which ironically exposes them to bacteria more rapidly. Cold eggs also fry better

Interesting. Eggs aren’t even kept refridgerated in supermarkets here.

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coast is ruined from fish farm run-off.
orange goo in all the animals.

tasmania sold out it's own people. the word "animosity" comes to mind when I think about what happened.

what an absolutely retarded fucking thread. stop wasting boardspace you retarded kraut.

maybe go free your nigged-out muzzie shithole country.

What an absoltely retraded fucking response. Stop wasting boardtime you retarded burger.

kek

they're different, 'use by' is usually legislative and products like meat and shit that rots and can make you ill past the date cant be sold, 'best before' is an advisory based on taste rather than it being dangerous to eat. Plenty of food past its best before is edible, just probably wont taste as good.

The dates have to be very conservative because they cant guarantee best case storage and have to assume their customers are dumb bastards.

>they're different, 'use by' is usually legislative and products like meat and shit that rots and can make you ill past the date cant be sold, 'best before' is an advisory based on taste rather than it being dangerous to eat.

99% of millenials have no clue about this. They read a date and throw the food away if it is over the date or even close to it.

I am just saying, if you write a sentence explaining stuff, less food would be discarded. It would be a simple change in regulation costing pretty much nothing while saving millions of tons of food each year.