Hello!
I recently started volunteering at a Food Bank in Utah where the general rule is that items are still good 24 months past their expiration date with tomato based items being 18 months instead.
Quite a bit of what get's donated to us through food drives is past the guidelines and therefore thrown out. My personal guidelines would add a year to both figures especially when an item is organic and I'd like to be able to take, from what would otherwise be fed to animals, things I feel I could use home.
Similar to how many vendors do not donate food out of concern for liability (something resolved by the "Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act"), my Food Bank doesn't want me taking anything they aren't keeping out of liability concerns as well.
My question is whether or not anyone else has come across this and whether they were able to find a way around the issue.
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