Slaughtered Date

[rockyracoon]

My brother has just bought a bit of steak from Tesco, a photo is linked below. Do you think the slaughter date is 2007, or is it a code for something else?

Many thanks

http://s1217.photobucket.com/user/frizzytwig/media/CC400CF5-3E55-4B27-848C-B2CC30D8DFF3_zpsoczx9hbs.jpg.html?sort=3&;o=0

[woofgang]

does it say anywhere on the package that it has previously been frozen? Does it give instructions for freezing?

[grasscarp]

It is the approval number not the year
■the country of the slaughterhouse and approval number. The indication should read:- 'Slaughtered in (name of country) (approval number)'.

[Buenchico]

It's the licence number of the slaughterhouse:
https://www.gov.uk/comply-with-the-compulsory-beef-labelling-scheme

[rockyracoon]

Thank you all, he'll be relieved, he's having a fit thinking it was slaughtered 7 years ago. Woofy, yes there is freezing instructions and there's no mention of it being frozen previously.

[Retrochic]

Its a code, otherwise following that logic it would have been cut up in 533 ad.

http://www.fsai.ie/legislation/food_legislation/fresh_meat/labelling_of_beef_products.html

[Buenchico]

>>>he's having a fit thinking it was slaughtered 7 years ago

I consumed the contents of a can of stewed steak earlier this week, with a 'best before' date of around 4½ years ago. It was lovely!

[anneasquith]

no chris ?

[rockyracoon]

He's very pernickety is my brother and seems to have a serious distrust of Tesco lately.

[BlackadderV]

In 1987, while clearing out my late mother's kitchen cupboard, I came across a tin of something (can't remember what) from a long-closed shop priced at 1s 9d, which made it at least 16 years old. I didn't risk it.

[hc4361]

If he's so pernickity why doesn't he use a 'proper' butcher?

[hc4361]

Tinned food should be safe to eat for many, many years.

[AlwaysConfused]

I was cooking at a friends house last week when I found 4 christmas puddings best before 2004, a jar of mayonnaise 5 years out, and several other tins and jars far past their date. I fed them to his bin before the items grew legs and placed themselves there! I found bearnaise sauce in the supermarket a months ago, TWO YEARS past its best before. Great rotation!

[rockyracoon]

I've got loads of tins in the cupboard that are well out of date, my daughter keeps trying to throw them out.

HC, he can't afford to unfortunately, the butchers round here are expensive.