from 16 months ago :
Scrap food sell-by dates, government urges manufacturers.
Sell-by dates should be removed from food packaging to help cut waste and save shoppers money, ministers say.
The UK throws away about £12bn of edible food each year and critics say confusing packaging is partly to blame.
New government advice says firms should include only use-by or best-before dates and remove sell-by and display-until labels relating to stock control.
The British Retail Consortium said a better approach would be to educate people on what the dates mean.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) says five million tonnes of edible food is discarded by UK households annually - the equivalent of £680 for a household with children.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14925046
I've got some roquefort in the freezer which my daughter brought back from Paris in 1988. 
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