We’ve all seen ‘em. Expiration dates on our food. Here’s one I bought a couple of weeks ago:
Oddly specific,
don’t you think? So at 1:09 AM it’s safe and
at the stroke of 1:10 it’s poisonous?
But at least
you can read it. Some labels are too small to read, even with a magnifying
glass. Or they’re smudged. Or they make you question the reliability of your source of information:
I researched this
for you, and it turns out that there are no federal requirements for food
dates. Each state does its own thing. (Infant formula is the exception.)
And “sell by”
isn’t even a message for us! It has nothing to do with food safety, it’s just
note to the retailers to help them stock shelves.
“Best by” is
just a suggestion, it turns out. Yeah, it might be absolutely freshest by that
date, but still perfectly edible after.
All this
confusion just leaves me with one thought: As long as nobody stamps an expiration
date on me, I’m okay.
Great news: None of the life hacks on my Youtube
channel will expire!
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