According to Kevin Payne, senior director of marketing at Intelleflex, some of those causes include:
- Poor harvesting, storage and transportation methods
- Plain old consumer waste (people buy too much and throw it out)
- Overly conservative and misunderstood “sell-by” dates, driven mostly by grocers looking to avoid legal actions to reduce risk due to poor food quality
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