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sell-by date

Public health
The date labelled on most foods in developed countries, especially dairy products, which is usually about 2 weeks from the day the milk was pasteurised, and about 1 week before it expires. An estimated 8 million tonnes of food are needlessly thrown away a year in the UK because of too-strict an adherence to sell-by dates, prompting government food bodies to switch to the phrase “best before” as a way of encouraging people to eat food that might otherwise be prematurely thrown away.

Vox populi-UK
A popular term applied a tedious person, stale witticism, or other thing which has past his, her or its prime, as in ‘that joke is way past its sell-by date”.

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Mr Malone said: "The shops often rely on their suppliers collecting the food by the sell-by date - but legally it's their responsibility and the shopkeepers are the ones who are liable.

Corner shop sandwiches fail to cut the mustard; 27% on sale were past sell-by date

The food included meat, soup, pasta sauces and yoghurt, some of which were six days past their sell-by date.

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An undercover reporter for BBC1's Whistleblower programme has claimed she found two supermarkets ignored sell-by dates and repackaged old food at reduced prices.

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Spar, in Heol Llanishen Fach, Rhiwbina, Cardiff, was selling food including quiche, cheese and milkshake between one and 10 days past their sell-by date.

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A sandwich-seller has been ordered to pay pounds 1,135 after he was caught selling food past its sell-by date.

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Most DJ-mix CDs are just Saturday night souvenirs, all the latest spun-sugar club hits slapped together and rushed into stores before the sell-by date passes.

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The court heard that in June this year he sold a packet of Bernard Matthews chicken which was 14 days past its sell-by date. Four days later a council trading standards officer was sold a packet of sausages which was four days out of date.

Selling chicken and sausages past sell-by date costs trader pounds 1,200

A store has been ordered to pay almost pounds 6,000 in fines and costs because food in a chiller cabinet passed its sell-by date.

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A survey by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland found 23% of them placed a sell-by date on raw chicken fillets which had no basis in fact.