Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
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It seems to me that this should be a simple thing. We are not going to meet our targets on food wastage. One twelfth of greenhouse gases are created by food wastage and here we have a problem that does not need to be there because there is no reason to have a use by date on a product. Rather than having meetings, setting up groups and having analysis, should we not be more proactive and ambitious and just bring this in? There is no benefit to having use by dates other than commercial benefit to companies. Where did the use by date come from? What was its origin?