Linking microbial contamination to food spoilage and food waste: The role of smart packaging, spoilage risk assessments, and date labeling

S Karanth, S Feng, D Patra, AK Pradhan - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Ensuring a safe and adequate food supply is a cornerstone of human health and food
security. However, a significant portion of the food produced for human consumption is …

Confusion of food-date label with food safety—implications for food waste

D Patra, S Feng, JW Howard - Current Opinion in Food Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Identifies how people in different countries confuse date labels with food
safety.•Food waste caused by the confusion over date labels with food safety is …

Green marketing in supermarkets: Conventional and digitized marketing alternatives to reduce waste

JU Gustavo Jr, LR Trento, M de Souza… - Journal of cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
This article seeks to identify and analyze green marketing actions that can reduce food
waste (FW) of short shelf life (SSL) products by retailers and to propose effective FW …

Quick and easy? Respondent evaluations of the Becker–DeGroot–Marschak and multiple price list valuation mechanisms

D Asioli, A Mignani, F Alfnes - Agribusiness, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article is the first to investigate respondents' ease of understanding and answering
valuation questions related to the Becker–DeGroot–Marschak (BDM) and multiple price list …

[HTML][HTML] Consumer willingness to pay for shelf life of high-temperature, short-time-pasteurized fluid milk: Implications for smart labeling and food waste reduction

P Endara, M Wiedmann, A Adalja - Journal of Dairy Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Food waste in the United States was valued at $285 billion in 2019, representing 70% of all
food surplus; dairy and eggs alone represented 15.90% of food surplus. Milk is the fifth most …

Consumer understanding of food date labels: preventing food wastage

K Shamim, S Ahmad, MA Alam - British Food Journal, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Confusion over the interpretation of date labels is one of the main causes of food
waste at the retail and consumer level. The purpose of this study was to determine consumer …

Decoding consumer resistance to near-expired products: The role of social stereotyping

Y Liang, Y Yin, Q Xu - Journal of Retailing, 2024 - Elsevier
Why are consumers reluctant to purchase near-expired products despite the commonly
tempting price deals associated with them? Whereas prior literature attributes this …

[HTML][HTML] Look-smell-taste labels on food date marking: Assessing their effectiveness for reducing food waste at a consumer level as part of the European Green Deal

LM Wallnoefer, O Meixner, P Riefler - Food Quality and Preference, 2024 - Elsevier
The frequent misinterpretation of “best before” labels among consumers is linked to
substantial amounts of food waste generated in the US and the EU. To counteract this …

The influence exerted by time frames on consumers' willingness to buy nearly expired food

M Song, Y Zhao, X Li, L Meng - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
With the development of Internet e-commerce channels, online shopping platforms have
become the main channel for consumers to buy nearly expired food. Date labels, as one of …

Correlation between natural microbial load and formation of ropy slime affecting the superficial color of vacuum-packaged cooked sausage

CA Guerra, LM Costa, VS de Oliveira, BP de Paula… - Meat Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study outlines a comprehensive correlation between the natural microbial load,
which is predominantly composed of heat-resistant sporous-forming Bacillus, and the …