A major supermarket has announced changes to hundreds of its fresh food products next month. Waitrose will be removing best before dates from its products and instead ask shoppers to use their own judgment when deciding if a product has gone off or not.
This decision has been made in a bid to tackle food waste, similar to the moves made by Morrisons and Co-op, who have also removed their best before dates. It is expected that other supermarkets are set to follow, and Marks and Spencer last month stated that they will remove the criteria on 300 of its fruit and vegetable products.
Waitrose products affected by these changes will include packaged fruits and vegetables reports The Lincolnshire Echo. These changes are expected to save millions of baskets worth of food from being wasted.
