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Max Power
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With reference to food, yes, but they usually don't want to because the taste isn't as good. With reference to medicine, the Wall Street Journal Europe reported about ten years ago about Army experiments with old medicines. In general, you shouldn't use old antibiotics, nitroglycerine, insulin, powders dissolved in water, or anything that looks bad. Other things are likely to be both safe and effective, they just haven't been proven to be good by a multi-million-dollar study. It is an urban legend that expiry dates on drugs are required by law, or mean that the drugs turn harmful.
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Not food items, according to my wife. But, go into any foreign-owned/run drive-in market and you can find moldy bread and can goods, that expired 2-3 years ago. they are antique! Apparently, they are interested in selling beer, cigarettes and newspapers and nothing else. the food is just a front.
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No because there have been stores, which have actually re-packaged meat, which, is illegal. Howeer, I'm not a lawyer, so I can't give out legal advice, but I would assert that no stores probably can't legally sell items past their expiration date.
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Most stores try to avoid this, but I have discovered that the expiration date actually does not mean the item is spoiled or unfit for the consumer. There is usually a "grace period" of several days, or even as much as a week, that the product is still fresh enough to be used. The expiration date is merely a warning that the product should be used as quickly as possible, while it is still good.
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Yes but most stores sell these items at a discounted price.
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Yes, it is legal to sell items past the expiration date. A good store will pull them just before that date and put them into a mark down bin.
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I have seen expired baby formula at the Moffett Field Commissary, where I work. I pulled it immediately. Recently, I found a can of formula over a year past its use-by date, and a couple of years back I found 12 cans 9 months past the use-by date, which I pulled and marked as expired. One night, I found 10 CASES of formula nearing expiration in the warehouse, and even some past expiration. I wrote on the expired cases "EXPIRED DO NOT STOCK", and circled the expiration date. I marked the cases in such a way that the store employees will notice that the formula has expired and must not be stocked.
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