New Research Preview and Recommendations on Food Expiration Dates Webinar Thursday, September 12, 2013 (3:30pm - 4:30pm US/Eastern) FMI members-only webinar

Please join the Food Marketing Institute on September 12th at 3:30 PM EST, for a members-only webinar previewing new research and recommendations on food expiration dates.

This one hour webinar will provide a preview of a report that will be released on September 17th from the Natural Resources Defense Council and Harvard Law School. The report includes a summary of federal and state laws on expiration dates, a summary of shortcomings of the current system, and recommendations on how to improve the system – including ideas for reducing consumer confusion and food waste. Speakers include Dana Gunders, staff scientist for NRDC and author of the recent report Wasted: How America is Losing Up To 40 Percent of its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill, and Emily Broad Leib’s, director of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic.

Contact Jeanne vonZastrow, jvonzastrow@fmi.org, with any questions.