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Picture the scene. You’re in the supermarket to grab some essentials: milk, bread, chicken, veg. You pick up each item, and instead of an expiry date, there’s simply a green tick or red cross. Green ...

Getting rid of 'best before' dates on food packaging would save the world billions a year by curbing food waste and stopping food poisoning outbreaks. That’s the suggestion of researchers who have ...

A new study by Johns Hopkins University says many people are throwing out good food because of confusion about the dates on the packaging. Owners of Christian County Discount Freight and Grocery say ...

The inventors of a suite of tests that enable food packages to signal whether their contents are contaminated are working to bring producers and regulators together to get their inventions into ...

The UK’s major supermarkets have been urged to sell fresh, uncut fruit and vegetables without plastic packaging or best-before dates in a new report, which found this could dramatically reduce food ...

Largest date companies in the world select Oman-based pet producer as packaging solutions provider of choice Muscat, November 4 th 2012 - OCTAL, the leading clear rigid food packaging material ...