They said “the water doesn’t have an expiration date, the plastic bottle does” so how come honey that comes in a plastic bottle doesn’t expire?

Question

They said “the water doesn’t have an expiration date, the plastic bottle does” so how come honey that comes in a plastic bottle doesn’t expire?

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

There is a bit of psychology to this employed by food manufacturers. The ones I worked with intentionally labelled products with much shorter expiry dates than the product actually has. This is to subtly communicate that the product is high quality and to stop big retailers buying years of product at once at cripplingly low discounts . There are other reasons for it like legal requirements from state or country level causing blanket labelling procedures as well however.