Lance Orozco
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18 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
Lance Orozco’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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you know when the food you buy is no longer safe to use?
Some labels say sell-by, but people sometimes mistake that for an expiration date and throw out food that's still good.
The result is a lot of waste.
Recycling experts say more than 2 billion meals in California alone are thrown out annually.
Under California's new law, packages can no longer have sell-by dates.
They have to say best if used by to show peak freshness and used by.
That's when a product is no longer safe to eat.
The law's author says this could be a model for national legislation, but it took multiple tries with the food industry to get the state rule passed.
For NPR News, I'm Lance Orozco in Thousand Oaks, California.
How do you know when the food you buy is no longer safe to use?
Some labels say sell-by, but people sometimes mistake that for an expiration date and throw out food that's still good.
The result is a lot of waste.
Recycling experts say more than 2 billion meals in California alone are thrown out annually.
Under California's new law, packages can no longer have sell-by dates.
They have to say best if used by to show peak freshness and used by.
That's when a product is no longer safe to eat.
The law's author says this could be a model for national legislation, but it took multiple tries with the food industry to get the state rule passed.
For NPR News, I'm Lance Orozco in Thousand Oaks, California.
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