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Expired foods were found on nearly half the visits to some of those supermarkets, which have not been named because the researchers are still compiling the data for publication in a journal.
But this isn't limited to minority communities in southern California. Inspectors from Westchester County's Department of Consumer Protection found hundreds of expired items when they visited stores in that New York county earlier this year, and some of the items had been expired for more than 31 days. And that, according to health officials there, could be dangerous.
Is it a big deal? Yes, and no.
Lewis said that when her volunteers began keeping track of expired foods they were doing so in the expectation that the foods were unsafe.
"But we've been talking with some food science people and nutrition people and they are telling us it's a quality issue not a safety issue, except for infants and pregnant women and people who may have some kind of auto-immune disease," she said.
That appears to be the consensus among food scientists, although there does not seem to be a lot of research backing it up. The USDA, for example, maintains that an expired product should still be "safe," but it may not taste as good.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
Expired foods were found on nearly half the visits to some of those supermarkets, which have not been named because the researchers are still compiling the data for publication in a journal.
But this isn't limited to minority communities in southern California. Inspectors from Westchester County's Department of Consumer Protection found hundreds of expired items when they visited stores in that New York county earlier this year, and some of the items had been expired for more than 31 days. And that, according to health officials there, could be dangerous.
Is it a big deal? Yes, and no.
Lewis said that when her volunteers began keeping track of expired foods they were doing so in the expectation that the foods were unsafe.
"But we've been talking with some food science people and nutrition people and they are telling us it's a quality issue not a safety issue, except for infants and pregnant women and people who may have some kind of auto-immune disease," she said.
That appears to be the consensus among food scientists, although there does not seem to be a lot of research backing it up. The USDA, for example, maintains that an expired product should still be "safe," but it may not taste as good.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net