the latest retailer to scrap use by dates on milk, as part of efforts to reduce food waste. m&s is urging customers to use theirjudgment on whether the milk is safe before throwing it away and it isn t the first company to do so. in 2019, the dairy giant arla swapped use by dates for best before, encouraging people to sniff or taste if it s gone off . injanuary 2022, morrisons announced it was doing the same on 90% of its own brand milk, to help reduce waste. according to the environmental charity wrap, nearly 490 million pints of milk are thrown away each year, with the main reason being that it was past the use by date. let s speak now to dairy farmer ceri cryer. good morning, ceri. you are near chippenham. we can see the cows here. you are out in the fields, hello. it s terrible that so much waste in milk is happening, people throwing away things unnecessarily.
what s their thinking, dan? this is all about trying to reduce food waste because 490 million pints of milk are tipped away every year and morrisons thinks it can improve that by changing the use by date on the cartons of effectively throw it away now, for a best before date which is more like guidance as to when it is at its best quality. they want to combine that with trusting us to use our own sense of smell and judgment to determine whether the milk is still fit to drink and they think it is safe that milk, if stored properly and of good quality, still safe for a good few days after that initial expiry date. they are the first supermarket to try this but because the dairy farming industry contributes quite a lot to carbon emissions and climate change, this would be widely welcomed by environmental organisations with the hope others might follow but what nobody can explain is what you should do if covid has taken your sense of smell away!
one of the uk s biggest supermarket chains, says it will scrap use by dates on most of its milk in a move it says will stop millions of pints being wasted. instead retailer morrisons, will display best before dates, on 90% of its own brand milk products. it says the change is due to made later this month. richard swannell is from the charity wrap which supports people and businesses to reduce waste and he explained the difference between the packaging terms use by and best before . we do welcome this and what is interesting is there is about 490 million pints of wasted every single year and we know that one of the causes of that is actually a misunderstanding around use by dates and throwing away milk too early so one of the causes of throwing away milk, and milk is actually the third item we throw away, the third most
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