Hospital workers make masks from office supplies

Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies by hcknwscommenter on Thursday March 19, 2020 @02:59AM (#22625200)

I speak from experience. Most expiration dates for this kind of thing are absolutely meaningless. I see expiration dates for sealed glass containers of water, methanol, dry chemicals stored at -80C, etc. It is all complete bull.

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Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies by RubberbandSoul on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:04AM (#22625498)

That's probably because there's a legal obligation to put an expiration date on it. Where I live all consumables have to have an expiration date so there is a best before date on table salt. Salt. Most likely this is because it's cheaper and easier to put an expiration date on everything rather than discussing the exceptions on a case by case basis.

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Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies by rightbyte on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:18AM (#22627694)

The only food I can think off that literally says "last forever if stored properly" is sugar.

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Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies by rightbyte on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:17AM (#22627683)

Eg. soda stream bottles (the water container) have an bogus expiration date, honey have expiration dates ...

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