Why can chicken be just fine going through packaging, delivery, and sitting on the shelves but after buying it from the store you have to use it in a few days before it goes “bad”?
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That fresh chicken actually only took a few days to arrive in your kitchen.
It’s refrigerated during all transport; the longer away from processing centres you live, the shorter the use before date on the packaging will actually be on the day it gets to the stores.
Apart from that thawed meet is frequently sold as well. That’s obviously not going bad because it gets flash frozen and only thawed in the shop right before putting it out for sale. And then again it’ll only last a few days.
But really, actual fresh chicken gets to your store/kitchen within 3 days of slaughter usually.
They don’t sit around in some ware house.
It gets slaughtered and processed, packaged and then is put on a truck to a distribution center. There it is unloaded, and put on the truck doing a delivery to your local store.
Thus 3 days being common with over night transport to and from a distribution centre.
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