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”?

Question

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”?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Chicken doesn’t stay fresh long, but, the farming and distribution process is down to a mastered science. It gets to the shelf so fast, so that much of the “shelf” life ends up in your fridge.

If there was a major disruption to distribution channels, grocery would run out of chicken immediately.