Does the Expiration Date for Food, Packaging, and Drugs have Worth?
Expiration dates on commodities, especially if they’re edible can be confusing.
Easiest example is the expiration date on yeast packages. Yeast does not go bad after the expiration date, it can still be consumed. However, it’s activity will not be the same. You can say it’s activity will dampen.
And then there are other commodities like water bottles on which expiration dates sound absurd. I remember looking at a water bottle as a child and getting confused because hey! when did water start expiring!?
A lot of work needs to be done to educate consumers regarding expiration dates and their relevance to different commodities. This confusion leads to wastage because realistically, no one wants to eat anything that’s presumably expired.
Habiba Ashraf VOC Technical Officer at Bureau Veritas Egypt (Food Regulation and Standards) in his recent post indicated that “Water itself does not have an expiry date. Pure water, in its natural state, does not go bad or spoil. However, water stored in certain containers, such as plastic bottles, can absorb chemicals from the container over time, which may affect its taste or quality. That’s why, the expiration date on the bottle refers more to the quality of the packaging rather than the water itself.
Ref: https://www.livescience.com
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