美国哥伦比亚广播公司:美国有专家称,消费者对于食品包装上的保质期经常处于搞不清楚的状态,这样既容易导致食物的浪费,也会对消费者的健康产生威胁.

CBS News: experts say consumers often get confused by date labeling on food products, and end up either keeping spoiled food around too long, or throwing away perfectly good food unnecessarily -- costing us billions of dollars.

In new a survey by the public health and safety organization NSF International, researchers found that people have trouble understanding and differentiating between common food label terms such as "expiration date," "best if used by date" and "sell by date."

Consequently, almost half of Americans do not throw away food until they see mold or color changes. And 17 percent of Americans say they just toss food when it starts to smell.