Codes on Food Packaging
How do you decipher code numbers on food packages?
By Cheryl from Savannah, GA
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02/12/2010
Each manufacturer has it's own codes for tracking 'batches' for quality control of all food (and other) items. When you hear about a 'recall' for a problem with any given batch of food it's because of those numbers that helped to track.
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