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It turns out the dates on food labels have little to do with food safety. In many cases, expiration dates do not indicate when the food stops being safe to eat — rather, they tell you when the manufacturer thinks that product will stop looking and tasting its best.

This man ate 'expired' food for a year. Here's why expiration dates can be meaningless.

"I ate heavy cream I think 10 weeks past date," says Mom's Organic Market founder and CEO Scott Nash, "and then meat sometimes a good month past its date. It didn't smell bad. Rinse it off, good to go." It was all part of his yearlong experiment to test the limits on food that had passed its expiration date.
This Sunday, June 16, 2019 photograph shows Indian magician Chanchal Lahiri, being lowered in Hooghly river during a live performance in Kolkata, India. According to eye witnesses, the 40- year old stuntman drowned while trying to perform an underwater escape act.

Houdini-inspired magician plunged into a river for a stunt. He hasn't resurfaced.

"If I can open it up, then it will be magic," magician Chanchal Lahiri said, according to the Guardian, "but if I can't, it will be tragic."
FILE - This July 17, 2017, file photo shows a Netflix logo on an iPhone in Philadelphia. Netflix's first Arabic original series, the supernatural teen drama "Jinn," has debuted worldwide with much fanfare, but sparked uproar in Jordan where it is set. State-run media reported that the thriller's release prompted condemnation from several government officials who vowed to censor it for alleged "lewd scenes" that purportedly violate public morals. Jordan's army website says the cyber-crimes unit is attempting to pull it from Jordanian Netflix. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Netflix's first Arabic original causes controversy in Jordan

Jordan officials, complaining of offense to public morals, threaten to block access to Netflix's first Arabic original series 'Jinn' in the kingdom

Voluntary euthanasia becomes legal in Australian state

Voluntary euthanasia has become legal in an Australian state more than 20 years after the country repealed the world's first mercy-killing law for the terminally ill
This undated selfie provided by Andrea Gallagher shows her husband, U.S. Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, who has been charged with allegedly killing an Islamic State prisoner in his care and attempted murder for the shootings of two Iraq civilians in 2017. Gallagher is scheduled to go on trial Monday, June 17, 2019. (Edward Gallagher/Courtesy of Andrea Gallagher via AP, File)
Was dead militant war casualty or Navy SEAL's murder victim?
More Navy SEALs are expected to testify for the prosecution at a war crimes court martial of Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher
In this Thursday, April 11, 2019 photo, copies of The Berkshire Eagle newspaper are placed in a machine before being bundled for distribution, in Pittsfield, Mass. The paper now features a new 12-page lifestyle section for Sunday editions, a reconstituted editorial board, a new monthly magazine, and the newspaper print edition is wider. That level of expansion is stunning in an era where U.S. newspaper newsroom employment has shrunk by nearly half over the past 15 years. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
New England newspaper owner fights to save local journalism
Local investors are pumping money into their New England newspaper chain in hopes of saving local journalism, but attracting new readers has been tougher than expected
FILE - In this July 27, 2018, file photo, the Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo. The Trump administration is close to completing one of the biggest of its dozens of rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark effort to wean the nation’s electrical grid off coal-fired power plants and their climate-changing smokestack emissions. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
Trump EPA close to gutting Obama rule on coal power plants
Trump administration close to completing one of the biggest of its dozens of rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing an Obama-era effort to wean the US electrical grid off coal-fired power plants
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Police investigate a shooting Tuesday at Berkshire Circle and Wakefield Drive in Carpentersville.
Carpentersville police shoot man who shot at them first, chief says
A Carpentersville police officer shot and injured an armed man who shot at him and another officer first, Police Chief Michael Kilbourne said.
Johnny Russler and The Beach Bum Band will perform at Batavia Park District’s River Rhapsody Concert Series on Wednesday, June 19, at the Batavia Riverwalk.
River Rhapsody Concert Series continues June 19
The Batavia Park District's River Rhapsody Concert Series continues at 7 p.m. Wednesdays, through July 31, at the Batavia Riverwalk. The concerts will be held on select Wednesdays throughout the summer from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and will feature a variety of musical acts.
Man who was unaware that house was ablaze rescued by Mount Prospect firefighters
Mount Prospect firefighters helped a man escape a burning house Tuesday afternoon, according to officials. A neighbor called 9-1-1 after noticing smoke. Authorities said a man who was in the basement hadn't known the house was on fire.
Hundreds of Vernon Hills area residents under a boil order after mechanical failure
Robocalls went out Tuesday night to warn some Vernon Hills-area residents that a major loss of water pressure Tuesday means that for the next few days they must boil their water for at least five minutes before using it.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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