{"id":781067,"date":"2026-07-05T03:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781067\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T03:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:59:19","slug":"california-bans-use-of-consumer-sell-by-dates-could-canada-do-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781067\/","title":{"rendered":"California bans use of consumer \u2018sell by\u2019 dates. Could Canada do the same?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\tThis week California banned the use of consumer \u2018sell-by\u2019 dates labelling on most food products. It\u2019s an effort to reduce the vast amount of food thrown out due to confusion over \u2018expiration\u2019, \u2018best before&#8217; and \u2018sell-by\u2019 dates. With other states exploring similar legislation, Jillian Piper looks into whether California\u2019s model could work in Canada.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week California banned the use of consumer \u2018sell-by\u2019 dates labelling on most food products. It\u2019s an effort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[276491,49,3335,276492,276493,48,103769,276494,19537,44,6797,276495,167926],"class_list":["post-781067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-best-before-dates","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-california-banned-the-use-of-consumer-sell-by-dates","tag-california-bans-sell-by-dates","tag-canada","tag-consumer-reports","tag-expiration-date","tag-global-news","tag-news","tag-other","tag-sell-by-dates","tag-short-clip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}