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Why Do We Use Dates on Our Food?

Emily says it happened when we started to move further and further away from where our food came from. Once upon a time, stores mainly had what's called closed dating. But by the 19 seventies, consumers start asking for open dating. Within a few years, 95 % of consumers are saying, open dating is like the most useful thing ever.

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