2007-02-09 07:54:51 · 23 answers · asked by steve738494 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
The U.S. Department of Agriculture passed a law in 1972 requiring "sell-by" dates on poultry and other packaged meat products. This is where the practice first began, and has now branched out into many other food products.
As an interesting side-note, the law permits the repackaging and redating of meat that has passed its "sell-by" date, so buyer beware!
2007-02-09 08:10:45 · answer #1 · answered by Michael 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-17 06:04:41 · answer #2 · answered by anubhav_55 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously some food products do have a legitimate sell by date such as dairy products and fruit.
However, the sell by date you see on tins and frozen products have on the whole been contrived by food manufacturers and supermarkets as a means of getting people to throw away older items in order to replace them with more up to date food products and hence add to their profits.
I saw a wonderful story in the news a few months ago when an elderly man ate a tin of processed chicken which he had bought in the year he married, back in the 1940s!! He said it tasted wonderful and it did not make him ill.
I bet a tin of contemporary processed meat (if you eat that sort of muck) would now state that you should consume it within a few months at most in order to make you spend more money replacing it. Surely another example of rip-off Britain!
2007-02-15 07:46:21 · answer #3 · answered by pagreen1966 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fools! There no such thing as a sell BUY date! its a sell BY date! It wasnt invented by anyone, its just something that company uses on their products to make sure the customer is happy.
2007-02-15 08:30:22 · answer #4 · answered by lucky charm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American companies of course. Most sell by dates are a way of stopping lawsuits against food sellers and a way of clearing stock from the stores so that producers make more money. If people used their brains and noses a bit more we wouldn't need them!
2007-02-16 08:04:25 · answer #5 · answered by alabama 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know - I was wondering who invented the 'sink by' date for Greek ferry boats.
2007-02-09 08:36:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sell buy date is a gimic to get you to buy stuff more often in the supermarkets. EEC crap
2007-02-12 06:05:52 · answer #7 · answered by simonsd25 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ministry For food and Agriculture.
2007-02-09 08:06:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont know but I think they are great who ever they are, beacause I love buying all the reduced price things.
2007-02-13 17:55:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weston Queen in 1923....
2007-02-14 13:00:09 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋