Episode #161: Food Labelling: Best Before Doesn’t Mean Bad After
Krish Thayaland, Manager of Training and Education at Second Harvest, facilitated a great workshop at the FCJ Refugee Centre about food date labelling. In the workshop, organized by our Food Security Program, Thayaland talked about the difference between “best before” and expiration dates, gave us a lot of useful information, and explained that “best before” doesn’t mean “bad after”, and how understanding that can really help to combat food waste. In this new episode of Borderless Voices he talks a little more about the workshop, and also about the important work carried out by Second Harvest, an organization that has been collaborating with FCJ Refugee Centre for many years.
Transcript:
Welcome to a brand new episode of the Borderless Voices podcast, presented by the FCJ Refugee Centre.
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My name is Krish Thayaland. I’m Manager of Training and Education at Second Harvest, a food rescue organization that has been in partnership with FCJ Refugee Centre for over 20 years now. We’ve been working together to support the community with good surplus rescued food.
Today we spoke about food date labeling and the difference between “best before” dates and expiration dates.
Did you know that most “best before” dates aren’t required by law, and that most foods can be safely consumed past the best before date? Next time you consume something and you see the “best before” date has passed, think about whether this food deserves to go to landfill or deserves to be consumed.
As a food rescue organization, Second Harvest strives to provide training and education around the issue of food waste, what we call the avoidable crisis of food waste here in Canada.
Part of that entails providing community members and organizations with knowledge and resources that they need to deal with their own food waste, and to join us in the mission to fight food waste all across Canada.
We’re happy to be partnered with FCJ Refugee Centre to rescue some of this good surplus food from food businesses all across the Greater Toronto Area, to ensure that this food is making it to the plates of people and not to landfills.
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