In addition to a ‘best by’ date that you’ll see on our packaged items, we use a Julian date code to manage bulk and track the lots of our packaged items. This is a 7 digit code you will find on the back of your bag or box to help you identify when it was produced. The first 3 digits tell you on what day of the year the bag or box was produced. The next 2 digits indicate the year,
and the final 2 digits are our SunRidge lot number. For example, the code “0152243” means that it was packaged on the 15th day of the year 2022 (January 15, 2022) Here is a handy guide you can use to help you translate the code. For more information on Food Product Dating and USDA requirements around Food Product Dating see here. Download Article Download Article Lots of food items, beauty products, and medications are thrown away every year because of misunderstood expiration dates. Learn the difference between an open-date code, which gives you a recommendation on how long a certain item will be good for, versus a closed code, which tells you when an item was actually manufactured. By learning to read these different codes, you’ll better understand how long your food will stay fresh, how long the medicine in your cabinet will be potent, and how long your beauty products will be most effective. This will help you be a better consumer, and it’ll ultimately save you money since things won’t be going to waste!
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Advertisement About This ArticleThanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 578,879 times. Did this article help you?How do I read my 7 Up expiration date?7-Up and A&W brand cans are stamped (typically on the bottom of the can) with a manufacture date in MM DDD Y format. Shelf life is typically considered to be 9 months for regular sodas and 3 months for diet sodas.
How do you read a coded expiration date?Read letters as though they were assigned to months.
Read the numbers after the letter as the date of the month and the year in which the item was produced. For example, if a code reads “D1519,” that means April 15, 2019. Many products might have a closed code as well as an open-date code.
What is the format for expiration date?Expiration dates must be displayed in the format DD-MM-YYYY. If the expiration date is printed in a different format, a sticker with the correct format must be applied, covering the original expiration date.
How do you read an 8 digit Julian date?The first two digits are the last numbers of the year and the three digits after the hyphen are the day of that year. So, for instance, a Julian date of 21-001 represents the first day of the year 2021, or January 1, 2021, while a Julian date of 22-165 represents the 165th day of the year 2022 or June 14, 2022.
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