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Open Code Dating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Claire Shottenfeld
Claire Shottenfeld*
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics, Cornell University
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Extract

During the past several years there has been increasing interest in “consumer protection”, and much emphasis has been placed on the provision of sufficient information to enable consumers to make wise choices. Currently there is a controversy as to whether information concerning food products should include a date printed in a form that is meaningful to the consumer. The question is not whether dating should be used at all, since most manufacturers do mark on their products the date of manufacture and other information, in coded form. The question, rather, is whether the consumer should be able to read or de-code the date information, or whether such information should remain unknown to the buyer.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , June 1973 , pp. 58 - 63
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Paper accepted for presentation at the NAEC meetings in Truro, Nova Scotia, June 19–21, 1972. Was not published in Proceedings issue due to deadline problems.

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