How do things expire once you open them/ expose them to oxygen when they clearly had to be exposed to air before being sealed?

Question

Like milk goes bad a week or two after opening it but if you don’t open it, it will stay good until the expiration date? Like yogurt, sour cream, shredded cheese. All those things. I’m confused

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Answer 1

If you open and close the item under laminar flow then it will remain sterile. Exposure to oxygen isn’t an issue for most things unless that oxygen is displacing more humid air and thus will dehydrate food such as bread faster to make it stale.