Are Canadians getting sick from expired food?

Food affordability has become a national crisis, according to Dalhousie University Agri-Food Analytics Lab Professor Sylvain Charlebois. "It is really happening across the country," said Charlebois, who has published a new food safety study that surveyed 9,109 Canadians. "The findings reveal 58 per cent are more enticed to eat food that would have the best before date either on that day or after," he said, adding that eating potentially spoiled food to save money is dangerous. "Take, for example, animal …