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Food expiration dates don’t mean what you think - Carolyn Beans

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Countries around the world waste huge amounts of food every year: roughly a fifth of food items in the US are tossed because consumers aren’t sure how to interpret expiration labels. But most groceries are still perfectly safe to eat past their expiration dates. If the dates on our food don’t tell us that something’s gone bad, what do they tell us? Carolyn Beans shares how to prevent food waste.

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Meet The Creators

Lesson Plan created by
Cheney Munson
Educator
Carolyn Beans
Director
Anton Bogaty
Narrator
Alexandra Panzer
Music
Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio
Sound Designer
Chengqing Zhu, cAMP Studio
Director of Production
Gerta Xhelo
Producer
Sazia Afrin
Editorial Director
Alex Rosenthal
Editorial Producer
Dan Kwartler
Script Editor
Carolyn Beans
Fact-Checker
Charles Wallace

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