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[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 8 points 2 hours ago

When I worked at an AIDS project with a food pantry, we got donations of expired eggs directly from the farms, and I am here to tell you - a palette of eggs 6 weeks past their expiration can sit in an unrefrigerated (but cool) warehouse for another 2-3, get distributed, and still be reliably OK.

...So long as you know where the eggs came from and how long it'd been since they were washed, which is what starts the real timer.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

thats sounds unsanitary. better to accept hardboile eggs into that some stores sell. vital farms or WF.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 35 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They both mean nothing in the US. It's basically just the warranty end date.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 15 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 hours ago

You still have the option to cook the eggs and deliver a free meal to a homeless person in the street. How are your culinary skills? Alternatively, if you know a family that needs a little help, you can directly give eggs to them.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 23 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 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.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 2 points 7 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.