New York, NY – No more crying over spilled milk.
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The city Health Department wants to end its age-old milk expiration date requirements, meaning cartons will have a later “sell by” stamp – and just one date.
City rules now say you can’t sell a fluid dairy product nine days after it was pasteurized – up to six days sooner than the industry standard.
That’s left many containers with two expiration dates, frustrating city residents who often dump seemingly unspoiled milk.
Health officials plan to unveil their proposal at a Board of Health meeting tomorrow. The City Council petitioned them to make the change earlier this year.
New York City remains one of the few places in the country – and the only city in the state – that has its own dating system for milk. Neighboring counties and other states rely on the processor to set the expiration date, which is generally 14-15 days after pasteurization, according to the Health Department.
The city’s reasoning was that milk took a few days to get to city stores or sat on warm stoops after deliveries, officials said. But both factors are rare now, they said.
If the city erases its rule, only the manufacturer’s date would appear on the carton.
Regardless of the expiration date, refrigerated milk is fine to drink until it spoils, officials said.
“People can drink milk out of a carton until it tastes no longer palatable to them. There is no hazard of drinking milk after its expiration,” an official said.
Either way, the REAL expiration date for cholov yisroel, which is the only milk most VIN readers care about, will still be much sooner than cholov stam. While the one new brand of cholov yisroel claims to have a “longer” shelf life, its still much shorter than cholov stam.
bout time they do this.
by the way, upstate i try to purchase cholov yisroel milk to show retailers that there is a need for it.
we dont drink only cholov yisroel, we drink regualr milk.
the cholov yisroel does not last nearly as long as the regular. for those who are in the industry and reading this post, please make sure to do your best to keep the product well refrigetrated at all times.
it will make it last longer.
thank you
“Regardless of the expiration date, refrigerated milk is fine to drink until it spoils, officials said.”
Oh, Ok, thanks!
Thank you Mommy Government for your permission to keep milk longer. If anyone spills out perfectly good milk even though it hit the expiration date, THEY ARE MORONS!
Are they making the expiration date of Golden Flow & pick a New Square brand name EARLIER (like a day after milking?) to make that more accurate??
why dont they just give a “born on date”
let the consumer decide for himself how long it should be on the shelf before its considered spoiled
if there is an ou on the lable.
, saying the milk is kosher,why do you need cholov yisroel?
I find that the city expiration date is about accurate for Cholov Yisroel, maybe even a drop too long. The “industry standard” is a joke when it comes to Cholov Yisroel, unless you are trying to purchase cottage cheese.
No he doesn’t. In the United States, the govenment regulates milk contents and it doesn’t pay for the farmer to do any tampering with cows’ milk. So it’s chalav stam.
The biggest reason milk spoils is the lack of speed to get it into the fridge. It just sits near the fridge in some stores….
#15 ….it dont matter to me…the “chooshoova chalav” is always spoiled (cow, transprt, packeging, store owner)…it dont matter to me…i buy shoprite (pay less and save)