Federal law does not require food producers to provide any of these dates on food, with the sole exception of infant formula. Nor does theU.S. Department of Agriculture(USDA) provide much guidance on the proper date labeling of food, except for the sole exception of infant formula.2 In fa...
With any product, it’s life span is only so long once it’s been opened. We can’t expect to open a package of sandwich meat and find it still fresh and edible 3 months later, regardless of the use by date on the packaging. I’ve opened boxes of cereal that w...