5 myths about food expiration dates and best-by labels Date labels are often inconsistent and difficult to decipher. So how should you use them?

Medically reviewed by Patricia Mikula, PharmD Like other medicines and food, vitamins often have an expiration date. Vitamins ...

Expiration dates, part of a sprawling family of labels that includes the easily confused siblings “best before,” “sell by,” and “best if used by,” have long muddled our conception of ...

Check your labels, folks. A pharmacist tells The Post that taking these four expired medications can do serious damage to your health.

An expiration date on a bag of rice. The different terminology on unregulated food labels, such as "best by," "sell by," "use by," sow confusion among consumers. Jeff Knox/[email protected] ...

Here’s Something Past Its Expiration Date: The Expiration Date Itself Consumers mistakenly think food older than its ‘best by’ label is unsafe, resulting in staggering waste By Josh Zumbrun ...

Across the U.S., different date labels cause confusion about when to toss out food, contributing to staggering waste.

Date labels. Expiration dates. Best-by dates. Whatever you call them, at some point, you’ve probably squinted at those tiny dot-matrix-printed numbers and wondered: “Does this mean my cheese ...

Date labels. Expiration dates. Best-by dates. Whatever you call them, at some point, you’ve probably squinted at those tiny dot-matrix-printed numbers and wondered: “Does this mean my cheese ...