Food waste: Özdemir wants to partially abolish best-before dates

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Food waste
Özdemir wants to partially abolish best-before dates

Cem Özdemir is Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture. Here at the presentation of the Nutrition Report 2023 in Berlin. photo

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Almost 59 million tonnes of food are thrown away in the EU every year. Agriculture Minister Özdemir wants to give long-lasting foods such as rice or honey no best-before date.

Long lasting According to Federal Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir, foods such as tea, rice and honey should no longer have a best-before date. This should help ensure that less food is thrown away, said the Green politician on Monday before a meeting with his EU counterparts in Luxembourg. “We need a binding list of exceptions for certain shelf-stable products,” said Özdemir.

In his opinion, it is “completely meaningless” that long-lasting foods such as tea, rice or honey have a best-before date. Özdemir sees the responsibility of the EU Commission to propose binding regulations for the European Union. According to Commission figures, almost 59 million tonnes of food waste is generated in the EU every year – around 130 kilograms per capita.

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