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Home » Reader question » What standards are used in Thailand for best before dates?
Dear readers,
My girlfriend went shopping in a “farang food” store. When I get home I notice with surprise that the freshness date of chocolate pudding is 1 year!! Yes a year!
Can someone tell me what standards there are in Thailand regarding the preservatives used?
Regards,
Other
There are probably a lot of preservatives in the food.
The fresh milk already has a long expiration date, but is still drinkable two weeks after it has been exceeded. (when kept in the refrigerator)
There are plenty of companies in Thailand that have their affairs in order, but with regularity it still happens that goods are out of date. I always look at the expiration date, because I know about this problem. This is therefore not always handled accurately. A warned person counts for 2 and I do not think that this will change much, even if this is communicated to the employees of the company concerned. Criticism is generally not appreciated. The freshness date is the same as in the Netherlands, which is stated on the packaging. They are not that unworldly in Thailand, but they are often very easy going.
There are no standards everything is sold as long as the packaging is not damaged and as in your case has been in the refrigerator and I have my doubts because refrigerated products are reduced in price before the expiry date and if it has not been sold I have hereby So I doubt if you got it right.
Shelf life is a relative matter.
The frozen products in the bigC, for example, are not deep-frozen. They are often half thawed.
Normally you can store frozen products in the freezer for a long time. However, refreezing these goods is bad.
The fresh meat department is also filled with frozen chicken, etc. These are defrosted and can only be used the day after purchase or the next day.
Incidentally, many products are discounted that are approaching their expiration date.
Haha, I was once approached by a Thai who provided canned food with a new expiration date. She had a production line where the labels were automatically removed from cans and then the cans were provided with a new label with a new date. Intended for export to Cambodia. Now I know from my years of service that the emergency rations provided to me by the Dutch government have an expiration date several decades in the future, but I did not respond to the question of whether I could supply canned food from the Netherlands. So maybe they are strict with the expiration date in Thailand, but then they have no problem exporting the problem.
What always strikes me is, those are the ready-made sandwiches at 7/11. A portion is not in the refrigerator, but simply on one of the shelves in the store. It looks ominously spoiled and rotting but apparently it is sold to enthusiasts anyway.
“chocopudding freshness date 1 year”. If it has undergone a UHT treatment (and therefore NOT if in NL it is only filled as pure as possible with pasteurization), that is quite feasible for one year.
You know.. there is no arguing about TASTE..
NB!! The stated date is not always the best before date, but often also the date of production. So read well. A tenant of mine once threw away all the beer I had recently bought for him from Tesco. Deadly sin.
when people in the Netherlands are delighted with food through food banks and similar institutions, they discover that the sell-by date was set with a considerable reserve.
Best Before = the date on which the manufacturer guarantees that the product still has the minimum properties that may be required = warranty date.
Do you throw away your TV when that date has passed?
With that THT date, a manufacturer simply limits liability to .. 3 -6-12-24 months, but there is really no chip built in that converts the product into a deadly poison at exactly midnight.
Preserves: after a few years, the tin accumulates to such an extent that the contents will have a tin taste. Mihoen, rice, steamed wheat noodles in a good laminate packaging:.. YEAR N..