8.2.19 Should you eat expired food?; Clark Stinks

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Food company CEO Scott Nash spent a year eating food past its expiration date, tortillas a year past, yogurt months past and heavy cream 2.5 months past its expiration date. Truth: Most expirations dates on medicine and food don't mean ingestion will be dangerous past that date. Meds can be fine years out of date, perhaps less effective but most are not harmful. Expirations dates should be honored on certain foods, including deli meats, unpasteurized cheeses & milk. And tossing picnic foods that have been unrefrigerated too long is still the best advice. Implementing a voluntary system, 2 years ago the food industry came up with a compromise of 2 labels: Best if Used By and Use By - to reduce confusion. Nearly 90% of us toss expired foods. But that's not necessary with most food items. Scott Nash was just fine! Christa reads listener posts about how Clark has missed the mark in his advice this week. If you have a "Clark Stinks" to share you can leave it here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you.
0:10.4	Learning ways to save more and spend less and don't let you whenever rip you off.
0:16.6	Coming up later, if you feel you've been ripped off by me with bad advice, bad guidance,
0:22.6	bad information or you just think I'm thickheaded, that's why we have Clark Stinks.
0:28.8	You get here on air edition just a little later now.
0:34.0	So, I want to talk about a guy named Scott Nash who is CEO of a company, a food company,
0:45.7	who did something as an experiment slash publicity stunt where he spent a year eating
0:57.8	food past its expiration date, item after item after its expiration date.
1:05.9	He ate yogurt, there was months past its expiration date.
1:10.7	Tortillas a year past their expiration date.
1:15.4	And this one is what freaks me out.
1:21.5	Bush and Post reports that Nash ate heavy cream two and a half months past its expiration
1:28.1	date.
1:29.1	Oh, that's a line too far.
1:32.2	Yuck.
1:34.0	So the reality is most expiration dates on medicines and food don't mean that the medicine
1:44.4	or food will be dangerous to you.
1:47.6	If you eat the food or take the med past the expiration date, I've shared with you over
1:53.3	the years about the study by the US military that found that medicines were perfectly fine
2:01.0	years past their expiration date.
2:04.8	Some of them might be only 97% effective way past their expiration date, but there was
2:10.6	no harm in taking them.
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