I must admit a few things in this thread surprise me. Firstly: It's a quality issue not a safety issue. Uhhhhh, that wouldn't fly in my place. Within my shelf life, quality matters to me greatly. If ever I do grant a shelf life extension to a customer, THEN I write it as "I confirm the product to be free from food safety issues, but will not guarantee quality past this date xxxx", etc. But there seems to be a shrugging of the shoulders here that quality isn't that big of a deal. No go for me. Quality is why people buy our stuff.... I am not willing to concede it at all.
Secondly, the idea that it's ok to ignore shelf life of ingredients due to MOQ restraints. Again, no go for me. We face similar issues on a few small ticket items, but it's handled by pricing it in to the product. I personally don't believe in me being able to write a shelf life extension for another company's ingredient. To me that's the 'ol 'the lunatics running the asylum'. It is in no way scientific. You have an outcome you want, and do testing that gives you a predetermined (your) desired outcome. BS imho.
I do understand many other places do this, and that's fine, but I doubt NSF Cert will support it much longer. The #1 thing my last two auditors have harped on is FIFO/FEFO. They seem to be headed a direction where the stuff we're discussing here will not be accepted, other than from the manufacturer.
The best way to handle this (imho) is order less if possible, price waste into the product if you can't.
Edited by MDaleDDF, 01 February 2024 - 02:35 PM.