Arbiters of Waste: Date Labels, the Consumer and Knowing Good, Safe Food
Arbiters of Waste: Date Labels, the Consumer and Knowing Good, Safe Food
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浪费的仲裁者：日期标签、消费者和了解优质、安全食品
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2012
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Richard Milne
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Richard Milne
日期标签在告知零售商和消费者食品可食用、安全且质量合格的时间方面的重要性，使其成为识别和干预食品浪费的主要场所。本文考察了英国日期标签系统的历史和空间演变。这篇论文展示了迄今为止的标志改革是如何发生的，以应对对食品质量、安全和最近浪费的担忧。它区分了四个时期，其中标签从内部库存控制机制转变为消费者保护机制，食品安全装置，最近成为打击食物浪费的关键因素。有助于最近对食品标签的社会学研究，论文图表改变了对标签在消费者，食品工业和监管机构之间调解作用的理解。它展示了日期标签等监管对象如何实现社会对食品的关注，并将当代改革日期标签的努力与消费者、政府和行业利益的先前表述联系起来。
The importance of date labelling in informing both retailers and consumers how long a food will remain edible, safe and of sufficient quality makes it a prime site for the identification of, and intervention in, food waste. This paper examines the historical and spatial evolution of the date labelling system in the UK. The paper shows how reforms to date marking have occurred in response to shifting concerns about food quality, safety and latterly waste. It distinguishes four periods during which labels moved from an internal stock control mechanism to a consumer protection mechanism, a food safety device and recently emerged as a key element in the fight against food waste. Contributing to recent sociological studies of food labelling, the paper charts changing understandings of the role of the label in mediating between consumers, the food industry and regulators. It shows how regulatory objects such as date labels materialize societal concerns about food and situates contemporary efforts to reform date labelling in relation to prior articulations of consumer, government and industry interests.