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Article: Can 'shelf life' be a "shelf lie?' What's shelf life? Today, it can be whatever a manufacturer says it is.
- Article from:
- Refrigerated & Frozen Foods Retailer
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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True or false: Food manufacturers can make any claim they want to about the shelf life of refrigerated products--nothing about it is regulated.
If you said "true," you're right, amazingly enough. More than a few people would like to change that, but so far without any luck.
"It's an issue of vital importance to both manufacturers and retailers," says Martin Mitchell, managing director of Certified Laboratories, Plainview, N.Y., and the technical director of the Atlanta-based Refrigerated Foods Association. "We're talking about not only the customer having a satisfactory eating experience, but about the safety of the product," he notes. "But there is ...