help-designer whey expiry date

[vaibhav]

hello all:

My name is vaibhav, I am from India and am new to this forum.

I bought a 2 pounds box of "designer whey protein" (the one manufactured in USA) yesterday, and to my utter dismay I found that the expiry date is 14th June 2006.

Is it safe to consume this whey protein considering that it is almost one month since it expired? The box is sealed, I have not opened it yet.

I went back to the dealer, but to my surprise other boxes had no mention of expiry date. So I thought this is still safer than others. Please Help!

Thanks in Advance

[zorra_1]

Is it safe?? I'm not sure...

Have I done it?? Yes! :lol: Mine had expired and I still made shakes with it. I think I kept it in the rerigerator afterward.

[Dodger]

I would use it. The companies are required to stick a date on the product. No one wants to test thousands of samples to find out when they really go bad, so they pick a time period that is short enough that they don;t have to do any expensive or long testing.

[vaibhav]

Thanks Zorra_1 and Dodger.

[cs_carver]

It's a fad. Since when does beer "expire?" Coca-cola? Huh?

Milk, maybe. Ditto on meat. But all the date really does is MAYBE spare you the risk of sniffing the container. Anything that's going to kill you because it "expired" is going to send some powerful warning messages. (Which is not the same as products in damaged cans or containers, which have risks of their own unrelated to dates. Botulism does not warn. It just kills.)

Real drugs are a different matter, but even then--the date is always, and artificially, set at a year from the date of prescription. Use your own common sense, and take all of your antibiotics anyway or else you're breeding superbugs.