Expiration date question: "Good thing I read the labels and dates before I opened or ate anything. I avoided potential food poisoning and/or a trip to urgent care by paying attention."
Expiration date question: "Good thing I read the labels and dates before I opened or ate anything. I avoided potential food poisoning and/or a trip to urgent care by paying attention."
-
What do you think the percentage is of Americans who throws out good food (even junk food) based on the expiration date? I mean - they do so not because the food might be stale but because they believe it suddenly became possibly toxic to eat.
-
What's the percentage for non-food stuff like soap? The other day I noticed my liquid hand soap has an expiration date for whatever reason. I better hurry up - I only have two years left of it being safe.
I started thinking about it after I read this...
"Good thing I read the labels and dates before I opened or ate anything. I avoided potential food poisoning and/or a trip to urgent care by paying attention."
It's from an Amazon review. After they checked the label - they learned the package was delivered with an expiration date two weeks past. They are talking about a Ruffles potato chip variety pack.
You're viewing a single thread.
Canned food is good for at least months after the expiration date. But even if it isn't expired, I check if the can is dented before I buy it. And if I drop it from my pantry and dent it I'll use it right away.
I googled about dented cans because I wanted to know myself how dangerous the food could be. I found very vague answers. This super-short page at the USDA is typical. They hedged. Note the "should". At least they defined the difference between a small dent and deeply dented can.
Is it safe to use food from dented cans?
Mar 24, 2023
If a can containing food has a small dent, but is otherwise in good shape, the food should be safe to eat. Discard deeply dented cans. A deep dent is one that you can lay your finger into. Deep dents often have sharp points. A sharp dent on either the top or side seam can damage the seam and allow bacteria to enter the can. Discard any can with a deep dent on any seam.
---
Rant - the CDC was crap. They have stuff about home canning but ordinary cans. All I could find was this and it sounds like company-approved PR...
Commercially canned foods are much less likely to be a source of botulism because modern commercial canning processes kill C. botulinum spores.
I couldn't find a single mention about dented commercially canned foods. What a garbage agency it is!
Thanks for looking up that info, even if the canned foods industry has ruined the ability of the FDA to do its job.
:you-had-one-job:
:you-had-one-job:
Exactly.
I wonder how many Americans emailed, texted, and even called them on the phone asking where the "dented can" page was.