[Daniel]

Dog food manufacturers like to keep it a mystery as to the actual date of manufacture and date of expiration/best by date.
As a purchaser of dog food for over 40 years, I have found it almost impossible to learn from ANY manufacturer these two dates. You can get a expiration/best by date, but how many years out do they go? WHO KNOW?
I have seen expiration/best by dates that are as much as 2 years out! Does anyone believe that a dog food on the store shelves can sit for two years and still be “good”???? If it is, what is in it that is keeping the fat(they call it lipids) from going rancid(spoiling)????
My opinion I would assume that ANY dog food that is at the end of it’s expiration date is probably at least 2 or 3 years old.
That’s my opinion.

[Daniel]

Hi and thank you for responding.
I just talked to their nutritionist at HQ yesterday and he told me the mfg date is a year before expiration date. TODAY the sales rep said the mfg date is 18 months before the expiration date. Seems like quite a long time for a product with no preservatives in it.
They said the date on the bottom of the bag is merely the date the bag itself was made.

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