{"id":354357,"date":"2026-06-10T07:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354357\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T07:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:16:10","slug":"new-food-labels-coming-to-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354357\/","title":{"rendered":"New Food Labels Coming to California"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNew Food Labels Coming to California<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStarting July 1, Californians will begin seeing a more standardized approach to food date labels as a new state law takes effect.<\/p>\n

According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, food sold for human consumption in California, with the exception of eggs and infant formula, must use specific date-label language. “Best if Used By” and “Best if Frozen By” will indicate when a product is at its peak freshness or quality. “Use By” and “Use By or Freeze By” will indicate when a food item is no longer considered safe to eat.<\/p>\n

The law also eliminates consumer-facing “Sell By” dates. Retailers can still use coded stock-rotation information, but the goal is to reduce confusion for shoppers.<\/p>\n

The change comes through AB 660. According to co-sponsor Californians Against Waste, more than 50 different date-label phrases have been used across the United States.<\/p>\n

CalRecycle reports that 2.5 billion meals worth of unspoiled food are thrown away each year in California, contributing to the organic waste that makes up 48% of what is sent to the state’s landfills.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Food Labels Coming to California Starting July 1, Californians will begin seeing a more standardized approach to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109953,144462,144461,7,64574,144459,144466,9,8,68116,144460,144468,144467,144470,144469,144465,144463,144464],"class_list":["post-354357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ab-660","tag-best-if-frozen-by","tag-best-if-used-by","tag-california","tag-california-agriculture-news","tag-california-food-labels","tag-california-food-waste","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-calrecycle","tag-food-date-labeling-law","tag-food-quality-labels","tag-food-safety-labels","tag-july-1-food-labeling-changes","tag-reducing-food-waste","tag-sell-by-dates","tag-use-by-date","tag-use-by-or-freeze-by"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}