UK: Customers will need to smell the milk - and determine if it has expired | Israel Hayom

Marks & Spencer has become the latest retailer to scrap use-by dates on milk as part of efforts to cut food waste.

The dates, which are meant to tell customers when food is safe to eat, will be replaced by best-before dates instead, which are recommendations on freshness.

The supermarket chain urged customers to use their judgement on whether the milk is safe to use.

M&S follows retailers including Morrisons in changing milk labelling.

In order to prevent the outrageous waste of food due to an expiration date even if it is still edible, Marks & Spencer decided to completely eliminate expiration dates on the milk it sells. Milk is among the products that are thrown away in the largest quantities due to the erroneous assessment that it cannot be drunk after the expiration date, as well as bread and potatoes.

In a statement, she said about 500 million pints of milk are unnecessarily thrown away each year. "The main reason for this is because they didn't have time to drink it in time."

She also said that because the milk does not expire so quickly, there is no need for an expiration date. "Customers should use their own judgment about what is and isn't edible."

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