European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Sta Sand strikes by Frances Cerra new York times Agency is dist rib l uling keys to Many of the Complex l food codes that k prevent shoppers from deter mining How Long food have been on the grocers by surveying 84 loud and getting inside information from super Market sources in cases in which the Man fact curs had refused to the new York state consumer Protection Board was Able to crack the freshness codes used on Many foods la conceal the dates on which they were the keys to the together with in formation on How Long the products can be expected to remain fresh after they were have been combined in pocket sized Rosemary executive director of the said that if Public response to the booklets was As favourable As she sex she would use it to press for state legislation requiring All foods to be openly labelled with a Date beyond which they should no longer remain on stores at Only York City and Nassau county have open dating and these apply Only to limited categories of such As Dairy products and the and a report taxed to the news Media Snow that Many food manufacturers use elaborate coding the Keebler which makes cookies and crackers under the Keebler and Zesta uses a letter and number such As am the letter refers to the Keebler bakery where the product was while the three digits stand for the month and Day of toe year u was Bui which numbers stand for what dates Are revealed Only to a Parson who has Access to b number Chart that fills two pages in the Booklet Keebler did not give the Board any information about How Long after packing the products could be expected to other such As use simpler the first digit of the code 7115 on one of their baby foods refers to the 1977 the second two refer to the the or March 13 through and the Urt digit gives the Day at the the fifth or a beechnut told the Board that its products last for at least two years after us coded Why do companies vie Coda in Stead or open Dales on their product precisely because some cow ners might believe that two Carold baby nod was still Good to according to the grocery manufacturers of although their do not express that reason so in a recent letter to an official in Massa which is considering a open dating George president of the Trade noted that one of the Pri Mary goals of Foo processing technology is to retard the Foo code entitled Blind is Avail Able free from the new York state consumer Protection 99 Washington spoilage of foods which would otherwise by very Peri Datel Abeling of such products would create false and misleading conceptions of product Diller Cnoc in the minds of Koch that u was appropriate to open Dale foods with shelf lives of less than so according to the 21 Stales have open dating but if not All of Are believed to cover Only easily perishable such As milk and even in areas with no dating Many manufacturers of such items voluntarily Ope Date their to 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