Answered Question: Very Slightly Out of Date Canned Food. Is it Safe?

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Critter Mom

Critter Mom

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Hi all,

Lúnasa's food order didn't arrive from Zooplus today. I've run out of the food that has been helping her GI issues - bar one can.

The can I have left is 2 weeks past its 'Best Before' date. I've opened it and it looks and smells perfect. There are no visible defects on the can itself. As a guide, if it were a tin of corned beef for humans I would consider it perfectly safe to eat.

Any idea whether it would be safe to give the Noodle some food from this tin? (She's only getting 1 teaspoon per meal mixed in with home-cooked chicken and broth at the moment). After the months of malabsorption and diarrhoea problems I'm desperate to keep her as stable as possible and the plain chicken made her very runny so I'm caught between a rock and a hard place.


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Critter Mom said:
Hi all,

Lúnasa's food order didn't arrive from Zooplus today. I've run out of the food that has been helping her GI issues - bar one can.

The can I have left is 2 weeks past its 'Best Before' date. I've opened it and it looks and smells perfect. There are no visible defects on the can itself. As a guide, if it were a tin of corned beef for humans I would consider it perfectly safe to eat.

Any idea whether it would be safe to give the Noodle some food from this tin? (She's only getting 1 teaspoon per meal mixed in with home-cooked chicken and broth at the moment). After the months of malabsorption and diarrhoea problems I'm desperate to keep her as stable as possible and the plain chicken made her very runny so I'm caught between a rock and a hard place.


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I think it's safe to give her, Mogs. Many things are still good past the "best before" date. Let your eyes and nose be the guide,
 
Kris & Teasel said:
Let your eyes and nose be the guide,
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I always do, Kris. I'm from the days when the senses were the only 'best before' advice you got. And so were all my ancestors. (They seemed to do OK. ;) )

I do wonder at times about how much perfectly edible food gets wasted by people who never learned how to determine the freshness of their food using the senses that evolutionary forces were kind enough to bestow upon them. How many people slavishly sling good food away based on the dates suppliers print on packaging and which most likely include a rather generous margin of error in an effort to avoid potential lawsuits? And with so many people not able to afford enough to eat ... :(

I hate waste.


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