Talk:Expiration date

Shelf life

There is a couple paragraphs about expiration dates in the US at shelf life (the current redirect target) that should be moved into this page once promoted to mainspace. Legacypac (talk) 01:58, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Done after nearly 6 years :) Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 19:04, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata

The English article is no longer orphan of interwikis. Its item on Wikidata expiration date (Q39086078) was merged with expiration date (Q898931) which has several other articles on the subject. —capmo (talk) 15:50, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Department of Defense content

I have removed the following as it is specific to the U.S. DoD and is too detailed for an encyclopedia.

The DoD Shelf-Life Program operates under the DoD Regulation 4140.1-R, DoD Material Management Regulation, ()

A. There are items in the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Federal Supply System that require special handling due to certain deteriorative characteristics. These items are to be properly maintained to ensure that the customer is provided fresh, useable material. The purpose of this Manual is to establish a shelf-life program and process, with special emphasis on those items having these known deterioration characteristics, to mitigate the risk of shelf-life expiration and lapses of shelf-life items/material beyond their inspect/test dates.

B. Provide policy and basic procedures for the management of both non-consumable and consumable shelf‑life items that may be hazardous material (HAZMAT) or non-hazardous material, spanning all classes of supply and stored at all levels of the Federal Supply System. Shelf-life management for hazardous material follows the same procedures as those for any shelf-life items, except that hazardous material should receive priority processing over non-hazardous material. Issues and guidelines concerning the acquisition, storage, handling, transportation, and disposal of hazardous material are addressed in Chapters 3 and 5 of this Manual. Class I perishable subsistence, Class III bulk petroleum, Class V ammunition, and Class VIII-B blood, are excluded from this Manual and shall continue to be managed in accordance with existing regulations. Commodities excluded from this Manual may be represented by their respective DoD Component to the DoD Shelf-Life Board. The definitions for “classes of supply” may be found in Appendix 16 of DoD 4140.1-R.

C. This Manual endorses the pollution prevention measures in DoD Instruction 4715.4 for hazardous material (HAZMAT) minimization (HAZMIN), as well as, the establishment of hazardous material control and management (HMC&M) philosophies which include consolidation and reutilization practices that embrace HAZMIN and HAZMAT elimination to reduce the hazardous waste (HW) stream.

D. Appendices A through K augment this Manual and furnish additional information germane to the DoD Shelf-Life Management Program. Appendix L serves as a quick reference index to this Manual.

Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 18:39, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

References

Editathon June 17

Just a heads-up that as part of an editathon I'm leading on June 17, new editors might be making some edits to this article. I'll be following up shortly afterwards to check for copyright compliance and other quality issues and will clean up stuff if needed. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 23:03, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Article name

Hi, following the Wiki rules ...

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Then the common phrase would be "Expiry date" - with "Expiration date" being ONLY a US (and perhaps Canadian) Variant, and would actually be incorrect English is the UK, since in the UK, "Expiration" means to breath out - as already correctly mentioned in the "Exirpiration" disamguation page. In fact, using "Expiry" rather than "Expiration" would seem top conform to ALL of the wiki points mentioned, ie different meanings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamspandex (talk • contribs) 09:42, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

Actually, looking at the page itself - even the image used as an example is that of a "display until" and "use by" date on a meat product from the UK, where the phrase "expiration date" is not correct, so the page is technically incorrect in it's present form. Since "Expiry" also means "to expire" in the US, then if I receive no objections, I will move the page to be entitled "Expiry date" since that means the same in English, and the US variant, whereas "expiration" does not have the same meaning in the UK, where it means means "to breath out", as already correctly mentioned in the "expiration disambiguation page". I have not moved a page, so hopefully I will manage to do it correctly. Jamspandex (talk) 06:55, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

I would strongly oppose a page move done without going through the proper Wikipedia:Requested moves process, and without evidence of a preponderance of usage. So far as I know, the phrase "Expiry date" is nonexistent in the United States. BD2412 T 12:18, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

Google ngram Expiry date,expiration date,use by date,best before shore Expiration date well ahead. Expiry and expiration are the same word, no one will be astonished. SmokeyJoe (talk) 14:07, 23 July 2026 (UTC)