>try to check expiration date on food>it's illegible due to a printing error or due to the packaging facility cutting it off entirelyI feel like this should be illegal
I work in manufacturing and we're actually supposed to shut the line down if the code dater stops working. Although this is a relatively new practice and for years the standard was to fix it at your next stop, which could be 4 to 8 hours later.
>>22055671For all the stupid things that people go to congress or their local government or whatever to try and protest or to propose a law, I can't believe that no one is pushing for larger, easier to read, expiration dates for the purpose of health and safety. Some of the dates on juices are clear and on the neck of the bottle and you can't even see them until you've drank past that point in the bottle. I don't understand why they're trying to hide the date. It's most likely you've already purchased it anyway. They got their money so who cares?
>>22055671If its in a can or glass then it'll be fine for at least another three years. But use it now, just in case
>expiration date printed on the plastic packaging>slightly rub it with a finger>it easily comes offnigga what
>>22055671The expiration date is bullshit anyway, they literally just make up a date with no thought behind it. Just look at it with your eyes, smell it, and take a tiny taste. If these three things seem okay then it's probably fine. You'll know if it's bad, trust me.
>>22055812So you can't sue if you get sick.
>>22055671>>22055812In the US, expiration dates on food products are not required by law. In fact, the government recommends not trusting them because companies could fudge the date to make you buy more product or consume it at a faster rate. We'd have to get a law in place which mandates best by or expiration dates before any QoL improvements can happen.
>>22055849came here to post this
>>22055671canned goods are stored in cool dry area, they'll be good for longer than u think. wish my house had a cellar room below the basement, a room that could stay cool year round, it would be great for storing food long term. my basement opens into the backyard and has windows, so it's not a true basement, and it gets warm in the summertime.
>>22055849This, the human body is really good at detecting when something shouldn't go in it. Trust your instincts, they've kept us alive for centuries.
>>22055992>they've kept us alive for centuries.>centuries
>>22055998Am I wrong?
>>22055671>mortal wages war on entropymany such casea
>>22055671It technically is illegal. Same with when store employees put reduction stickers on the expiration date—defacing it
>>22056010if it's reduced, it's expiring soon. do we need to spell it out for you?
>>22055812Not going to happen any time soon, the current admin is more focused on deregulation and reduction of food standards.
i'm the "date checker" at work, it's insane there isn't some standardized universal placement, font, and font size for best by dates.I've got 6 strawberry granola bars that don't have anything on them, it's like the boxes didn't get stamped, i have no context on them.then there are packages i think rice krispie treats, and several other kelloggs things, they have their own unique stamp code that i can't decipher beyond the year. some of them end in 26, some of them end in 27, but they start with letters, letters that some months don't begin with. i've seen packages of the same item, maybe a lemonade, where one batch uses 10/10/2026 and the next batch uses Nov 10 26inconsistency in placement, i can't catch everything
>>22055851>companies could fudge the date to make you buy more product or consume it at a faster rateIdeally packages would be labelled with the date the item was made, or relevant equivalent such as meat products saying when the animal was slaughtered.
>>22055671it is.just show the grocer and they'll remove the item.
>>22055812>larger, easier to read, expiration datesthey're already perfectly legible.
>leave out milk for three days>it smells like death and is curdled>expiration date says its good for another week>drink it>have mega diarrhea all day and also the milk tasted horrible Who do i call about this im gonna sue somebody big time
>>22056717Your parents for letting you become a retard
>>22056140the letters often denote which manufacturing line that the product was made on. the code date isn't for you, it's for the manufacturer to trace the batch back to its manufacturing location and date so that if bad product gets out they know precisely what product to recall.where I work we use dates like 0896 which would mean the 089th day of the year ending in 6 (2026, 2016, 2006, etc) for the time it's 24 hour time so you'd see something like 1743 meaning 4:43 pmbut as someone else mentioned it's not even legally required to date packaging and again the code dates that you can't read are for internal company use for batch identification and quality control
>>22056909>4:435:43*sheit
>>22055671it is not an expiration date.
>>22055812THERE ARE NO EXPIRATION DATES ON FOODS IN THE US.
>>22056010>>22056034>>22056717it is not an expiration date.
>>22056140>>22056909I've seen ones where it's just some kind of barcode, nobody seems to know what it means.Probably just batch/lot numbers.
>>22056909it would make it easier if they'd do both, why would you hide the "best by" date from someone? they'll just return the item if it's stale and not trust any other of the product because they also don't have an easily identifiable date
>>22057323inkjet printers are a huge pain in the ass. they fail constantly and require cleaning with hazardous solvents. they are very expensive to replace if they break completely and even if they don't you have to pay someone to repair it.adding an inkjet printer to a manufacturing line (not only one line, but EVERY line in a factory, sometimes 30 or more lines) is, over time, a gigantic money sink and is only done when absolutely necessary. adding one when it wasn't needed would literally just be throwing money away, which is frowned upon in high volume manufacturering where 1 penny of a profit margin is considered a big deal.
>>22055671Imagine caring about expiration dates on anything other than dairy. They are nothing but marketing. Fun fact: the US Dept of Defense did a huge study on medication expiration dates and found that with just a few exceptions (hormones, some refrigerated stuff, etc) medications lost essentially no potency after many years.Picture is not related
>>22058016Don't pretend that the packaging of 99% of food doesn't already have ink on it.
>>22058156packaging is made by companies that make packaging. the packaging for products isn't made by the people who make the product. they buy pallets of boxes from a factory that makes boxes. The code date is printed on the box at moment that the box is filled and sealed.
