New Minnesota law to allow food banks to accept eggs past quality assurance date

5 hours ago by Lurian to c/news

A new Minnesota law taking effect on August 1 will allow food banks to accept donated eggs that are past their quality assurance date.
Mantzy81 25 points 4 hours ago

They should be able to accept any food past it's "best before" date but not it's "use by" date as they are completely different things that often get conflated leading to masses of food waste

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chahn.chris 11 points 4 hours ago

Meanwhile in Washington state I can’t give fresh eggs laid by my chickens to a food bank because I don’t have an egg dealer license even though I’m donating them.

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FuglyDuck 13 points 3 hours ago

For good reason. While you might (probably, almost certainly,) are good with food safety; a lot of people are not.

They have to legislate/regulate for the worst.

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adarza 1 point 4 hours ago

here in the midwest, i see random packages of frozen game meat from the food pantry every now and then. usually venison, sometimes bear... elk once, even. and not always packaged by a commercial meat locker, either.

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subverted_per 0 points 4 hours ago
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Nytefyre 3 points 4 hours ago

That is true. The thing with eggs is that the worst that can happen, is that the grade of the eggs just slips. Edible still, but you may not get the graded quality of the egg as it was when it was its absolute freshness.

If eggs are kept in the fridge past expiration, you're assuring an extra 3 - 5 weeks. However, there does become a point where the eggs stop being good enough to just simply eat as normal, but they become better for baking purposes.

But once those extra weeks come and go, those eggs will not be good anymore for any purpose.

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YabbaDabbaDipshit 2 points 22 minutes ago

But once those extra weeks come and go, those eggs will not be good anymore for any purpose.

Depends on if you have enemies or not

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zarathustrad 1 point a minute ago

Happy Halloween!

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Nytefyre -6 points 5 hours ago

Gross. I think the hungry and needy deserve better than that.

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Sibshops 8 points 4 hours ago

It's not expiration date.

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Jessicat 6 points 3 hours ago

That article is pretty straightforward. It’s aiming to decrease food waste, increase an in demand food item at food pantries, and presents little risk because bad eggs are easy to identify. All in all it seems like a positive development.

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unemployedclaquer 3 points 3 hours ago

Just factory eggs for you

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Montagge 3 points 2 hours ago

These aren't rotten eggs

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Signtist 3 points 2 hours ago

Last weekend I finished off a carton 3 weeks past the "best by" date. They were still good, and tasted the same as any other normal egg. Not farm fresh, but fine. They last a lot longer than the date on the carton says.

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ElcaineVolta -11 points 3 hours ago

no one should be consuming bird ovum, it's weird this is even something that needs to be said.

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ScientifficDoggo 5 points 3 hours ago

Why not?

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Th3D3k0y 1 point 27 minutes ago

"it's weird", they gave a direct, well established and reasoned directive. Luckily they made reference to the fact that no other animals in the world eat eggs... /s

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ScientifficDoggo 1 point 4 minutes ago

Ah, thanks.

I guess years of egg... I mean birb ovum eating has damaged my reading comprehension. I don't know how far I've strayed from God's light due to the before mentioned egg based illiteracy, but I assume it's far.

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