Summer Friday: How Food Date Labels Actually Get Made

You might be throwing things away before you need to

It’s happened to all of us. You grab that container of yogurt from the fridge, and just as you peel back the top, you see it: it “expired” three days before. So you throw it in the trash, along with the two containers sitting next to it.

But did you really have to toss them?

Americans throw away billions of dollars’ worth of good food each year, often bec…