Misleading date labels contribute to food waste.
While we wait for legislation that can standardize and clarify, you can educate yourself and others about what date labels really suggest.
Taste and smell remain the best indicators of food quality. The milk in my morning tea lived on past the date on the carton. It's milk from a large local brand, Clover, and it has been stored properly. If it gets stinky or lumpy it goes; otherwise it's just fine.

The Food Law and Policy Clinic of Harvard Law School continues to publish useful reports on this and other issues around extra food and reducing food waste. Check it out.
https://www.chlpi.org/flpc-releases-issue-brief-calling-federal-legislation-standardize-date-labels/?fbclid=IwAR14ifBkxD73BRbIEsDo4B0NWLwh3rEPGOgDDilFCAOLXSWS4gXyWph7PaM