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2022-09-19 Britain

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Posted by DooDahMan 2022-09-19 06:45|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Not to be confused with Big Food labeling 'best use date' way early to help with retail turnover.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-19 09:42|| 2022-09-19 09:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Botulism. Finishing the job Fauxi's bat virus and the vaccination that does not protect started.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-19 09:53|| 2022-09-19 09:53|| Front Page Top

#3

Having lived in a real world, our generation knows there is a major difference between BEST BY and when it should be tossed.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-09-19 14:57|| 2022-09-19 14:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Date labelling on food is confusing... experts say.

Too many numbers for today's citizen.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-19 15:46|| 2022-09-19 15:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Originally done to make the lawyers happy. Same with meds. Not that I advocate taking expired meds.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-19 15:51|| 2022-09-19 15:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't know why it made me think of this.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-19 15:58|| 2022-09-19 15:58|| Front Page Top

#7 How do you identify a Production Batch of food that needs to be recalled for food safety reasons? In the Dairy Industry the "Best By [date]" was often a SWAG (Scientific Wild-Ass Guess) because being exposed to heat could spoil pasteurized dairy milk in hours! Backtracking the Best-Buy Date gave you the Production Date and allowed the Industry to provide the licensing authorities an identifier that they had demanded.

The HAACP (Hazard Analysis And Control Points), often associated with NASA's making safe food for astronauts, was a food industry wide program that started tightening up standards ...though the Europeans have decried it as making "plastic food".

TL/DR: Best Buy Dates were the only production batch code until recently.

Posted by magpie 2022-09-19 18:45|| 2022-09-19 18:45|| Front Page Top

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