Need food packaging that detects pathogens... so that we can get rid of meaningless expiration dates
> so that we can get rid of meaningless expiration dates
Not all food decay is driven by pathogens. We’d still need expiration dates for chemical degradation etc.
One of my personal working theories is oxidized fats are bad for you long term.
The choice of best-before dates does not only depend on actual spoiling of goods but are also chosen to include factors like how a product looks or if the texture is still "acceptable". That is a product can still be perfectly edible at that point but the date was chosen because e.g. chocolate does no longer look good after that time.