造成问题的一大原因是食物过期标签混乱，目前不受政府监管。

One major cause of this problem is the confusion over food expiration labels, which are currently not regulated by the government.

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了解不同食物的“最佳食用日期”和“过期时间”，并正确烹调它们是很重要的。

It is important to know "best-before" and "use-by" dates of different foods and cooking them properly.

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事实证明，在困难时期易受影响的另一项开支是食物，因为越来越多的农村贫困人口转向“食品拍卖”，但通过这种方式提供的食品可能已过期。

Food is another expenditure that has proved vulnerable to hard times, with the rural poor turning increasingly to "food auctions," which offer items that may be past their sell-by dates.

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