{"id":387813,"date":"2026-07-06T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387813\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:39:08","slug":"california-standardizes-use-by-labeling-jeff-greenbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387813\/","title":{"rendered":"California Standardizes &#8220;Use By&#8221; Labeling, Jeff Greenbaum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 1st, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">law<\/a> went into effect in California that standardizes the terminology that food manufacturers, processors, and retailers may use to communicate when food is safe for human consumption. \u00a0Most significantly, the law prohibits the use of consumer-facing \u201csell by\u201d dates on packaging. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the new law, packaging that includes a date label that communicates a quality or safety date on a food item must use one of the following terms:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBEST if Used by\u201d or \u201cBEST if Used or Frozen by\u201d to indicate the quality date of the food item;\u201cUSE by\u201d or USE by or Freeze by&#8221; to indicate the safety date of the food item;\u201cBB&#8221; to indicate the quality date of the food item if the food item is too small to include the terminology above or if the food item is a qualifying beverage; or\u201cUB\u201d to indicate the safety date of the food item if the food item is too small to include the terminology above.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The law does not apply to infant formula, eggs, and beer and other malt beverages.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 1st, a new law went into effect in California that standardizes the terminology that food manufacturers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[151655,7,9,8,413,35020],"class_list":["post-387813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-advertising-law-updates","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-food","tag-labeling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387813","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=387813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}