Date markings and storage instructions on food labels

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• Requirements
  • General
  • Foods packaged at a place other than the retail premises
  • Foods packaged on the retail premises
  • Durable life
  • Exemptions
  • Voluntary declaration
• Manner of declaring
  • Format
  • Language
  • Legibility and location
  • Lot code
  • Examples of acceptable declarations
• Date marking information on specific products
  • Retail packed foods
  • Shipping containers
  • Modified atmosphere packaged foods
• Other date marking systems
  • Expiration dates on foods for special dietary use
  • "Use by" dates on prepackaged fresh yeast
  • "Sell by", "Prepared on", "Freeze by", "Manufactured on" dates
• Storage instructions
  • Low-acid foods packaged in hermetically sealed containers
• Related information
• Definitions
  • Durable life
  • Durable life date
  • Hermetically sealed container
  • Low acid foods
  • Packaging date