What does the expiration date on an egg carton mean?
It means different things to different packers. That is why it is good to try to locate the “pack date” on the carton. It is a universal number. It is a number between 1 to 365 representing the day of the year starting with January 1 as 001 and ending with December 31 as 365. It will be 013 for January 13, 2010, 044 for February 13, 2010 and so on. The best way to follow this would be to find a calendar that tells what day in the year each day is.
