Expiration dates on tinctures.
Expiration dates on dry goods.
Expiration dates on solid vitamins.
ALL lies.
Keep these things cool, dry and sealed against any air infiltration, and they can last indefinitely.
My GF is so brainwashed into thinking that expiration dates are valid, she tosses out dairy goods the day BEFORE. She was mortified to learn that I use cream that is as much as a week beyond the “due date”. If it’s kept well-chilled and never left out, it’s fine.
I’ve always figured as much. It’s not like the pills are going to turn into non-aspirin!
My wife does the same thing. It makes me rage with frustration.
She also takes pans with minor amount of food in them out to the yard to dump them. It attracts critters. I ask her, what do you think goes down the toilet?
“She was mortified to learn that I use cream that is as much as a week beyond the “due date”. If it’s kept well-chilled and never left out, it’s fine.”
My kind of man.
Before I got married, if lunchmeat felt slimy, I’d rinse it off...
Brainwashing being the popular fad that it is, this might do no good.
But you could attempt to explain that the date on dairy and other "fresh" foods in grocery stores is not a "spoils by" date.
It is rather the last date on which the store will sell the product, expecting a reasonable transit and storage time to the customer's home and them a period of storage during which it is consumed.
Typically, dairy and juice products can easily be stored with safety and consumed for anywhere from two weeks to a month after the "sell by" purchase date, provided they are kept with reasonable care and refrigerated.
I’ll bet she thinks we have government schools because parents and teachers got together and devised the best possible system to make sure that all children get a quality education and an equal start in life.
I’ll bet she thinks we have evening news on TV because the networks know that our institutions can best protect our freedom when we have an informed citizenry.
Isomers aren’t always so stable.
I recall the local cartoonist in Minneapolis - Guindon (in the 70’s I suppose). He would do those one-panel cartoons. One was the guy in city hall, all dressed up in his winter clothing, but with about 20 different milk products strapped to his body.
“If my street doesn’t get plowed soon..... all of these products expire TOMORROW!”
I’ve noticed that dairy products last much longer now than they did 20 or so years ago. I routinely use them well past the ‘use by’ dates, with no problem.