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Check the expiry date before buying in the grocery WSB TV channel 2

Atlanta – Before you throw this article in your car in the supermarket, it is a good idea to check the expiry date.

Alisha Ross said she couldn't wait to try a new juice brand from her local supermarket.

“I brought it home and unload everything. Went some juice a few days later and happened to look at the date, ”she said.

It had expired a few weeks earlier.

She was so annoyed that she ventilated on social media.

“So many mothers started to comment. So many. Successively. I said, “Okay, that's more than just a juice here,” she said.

Jesse Garcia is with the USDA food security and inspection service.

He said, regardless of the wording for the packaging, whether it is best, freeze, sell or use food safety on food safety.

This is about top quality.

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“Because you want to make sure you enjoy the product, give you the time frame when it is of the highest quality,” said Garcia.

He said the government did not regulate the data that manufacturers include with an exception to food – some baby food, including the formula.

The federal law requires a “date of use” so that customers know when they do not give it to their child.

Ross said that should be the way for every food product.

“I have now checked dates like Crazy,” she said.

Health officers say no matter what the date says when the food looks strange or smells … don't eat it.

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