product. so it might say use by, it might say sell by, it might say best if used by or enjoyed by, there s so many different phrases to describe this date that people, you know, might pick it up in the supermarket or from their fridge and not really know what that date means. my mother-in-law likes to cut off the mold and says it smells fine to me, that s the way she likes to handle it. how did we get to this place? it s actually a really interesting history. in the early 20th century food manufacturers placed a code on the items and that was not for consumers. so if you picked it up, if i picked it up, it would look like some type of jumble of numbers and letters t wouldn t look like a date at all. for the retailers that code correlated to a date and that was a sell by date. so the idea was that the retailer would look at the item, this they would say, all right, this food manufacturer wants us to sell the product by a earn certain time because that s when they think it s going to
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additional migrant worker visas, but if farmers are to survive, food prices look certain to head higher still. simon jack, bbc news. one of britain s most popularfood brands, heinz, has stopped supplying tesco with most of its products in a dispute over pricing. baked beans, ketchup and tomato soup are among the familiar products affected. our business correspondent emma simpson has more details. what is going on? this is a row between two very big household names kraft heinz, the giant food manufacturer, and tesco, britain s biggest retailer, and of course we re talking about products which are sold in huge quantities every week, like the nation s favourite baked beans. it s already resulting in gaps in some of tesco s supermarket shelves and its website. as we heard in simon s piece just there, the food supply chain is grappling with unprecedented cost pressures.