What Does a Food Product Expiration Date Really Mean?
February 27th, 2010 admin
Topics: cheese, expiration, expiration date, food, food safety, milk, product, refrigerator, result, slate magazine, supermarket
image from the Gothamist It’s Saturday morning, you’re locked in after a blizzard dumped 16 inches of snow at your doorsteps. Your three little ones are demanding their morning cup of hot milk / cocoa. Groggy eyed and still half asleep, you open the fridge and pull out the last carton of milk. As you’re about to open it, you discover that its “use by” date expired 2 days ago. What do you do? A. Take a sniff of the milk, if it smells OK, no problem. B. The kids will drink tea this morning. C. Get the snow shovel and ice scraper and drive to the nearest convenience store. D. Go…
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