100% uncontaminated
IT’S PINK! It’s definitely contaminated. Maybe it’s got other things things you want in there, but that’s still contamination. It’s not pure salt.
One upside is that 250mil years ago nobody threw plastic in the ocean, so not microplastics unlike seasalt
It’s in a plastic container and was processed by heavy machinery. There’s definitely micro plastics and other fine particle contamination in there.
Looks like it’s in a plastic container
Was it sold as pure NaCl? Probably not…
Would be cooler if it was.
But at least it doesn’t have any chemicals. /s
It’s not cool to call homosexual salt “contaminated”
We all know salt every salt has 249999998 years before it expires. I mean it’s common sense
While that is true, I’m still pretty salty about it
Barium salts might last a bit longer - and there’s no “best before” on most salts of nitric acids. They certainly were best before you spotted them…
Expiration dates on salt and water are funny and all, but expiration dates exist because capitalists would disguise spoiled food to maximize profit. And it takes an enforcement regime to make them care about their customer’s health. Wasted food is still preferable to wasted life.
These regulations didn’t fall out of a coconut tree.
In the US at least the dates are made up and inconsistent, like having best by, expires, and use by which all mean different things and are not regulated. For the most part they are about the taste and texture of the food, not food safety.
There is only one food product which does require a date in the US.
Does Federal Law Require Food Product Dating?
Except for infant formula, product dating is not required by federal regulations.
The expiration dates on things that do not spoil like salt were added by capitalists who want you to throw it out so you will buy more. It is abusing the voluntary made up and inconsistent date labeling capitalists came up with to weasel out of being regulated.
Other countries have regulations, but odds are that they don’t apply to salt.
While that’s true, most products have a “best by” date instead of an expiration. I worked for a company that bought items past that date from major retailers and resold it at.a discount.
Doesn’t that have to do with the container?
Yep, the plastic dissolves
So now the salt is full of microplastics? Well, so am I. Come on in and join the rest.
One of us! One of us!
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On salt?
It depolymerizes on water, but salt is extremely hydrophilic and stops that process down.
Table salt has an expiration date from the secant that keeps it as a powder, but the one in the picture doesn’t have it either.
Many places in the world mandate expiration dates on food items, no matter what the item in question actually is.
Water in a glass bottle? Expires in 24 months.
A lot of these laws have to do with expected lifetime in “worst plausible storage conditions”, like poorly sealed boxes and wrong temperature and humidity
Yup, each batch needs to be stored in controlled conditions for the entire length of the expiration period. Many times the product expiration period is much longer, but controlled storage isn’t cheap, so just companies just do the minimum required by them.
Bet it has more to do with salt caking up and getting nasty appearing than anything else other than just a legal requirement. Also I think that’s a “best by” date not an expiration.
For some stupid shit reason, there is a legal limit for “best before” dates like that. You are not allowed to put a best before date that is more than IIRC three years after packaging.
Salt is the number one victim of this stupidity by far, if packaged properly it will still be usable salt a million years in the future.
But some other food items are definitely good after more than three years. Some tinned goods, or rice, pasta, dried legumes, honey, sugar.
In some cases, like water, it’s more about when the plastic will start noticeably altering the taste and properties of the food
In Germany, the best before date is not required for things like spices, and other food that will still be consumable even decades after packaging.
This isn’t true, the best by dates are not regulated by law. They are entirely voluntary.
I wish I knew every law in every country like you.
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He who controls the salt. Controls the universe
Food grade salt stored in the plastic container 🤦
Seriously, the reason for the expiration date is pure salt draws moisture even though packaged and starts to cake. Most people don’t want lumpy salt, thus the expiration date.
Can’t eat it now!
250000000 years old! Ground salt uncontaminated by microplastics unlike sea salt!
PACKAGES IT IN CHEAP PLASTIC CONTAINER…
What exactly happens to salt that makes it “expired”? Some sort of mould from the air growing on it or something?
It’s a ‘best by’ date, which just means that the manufacturer won’t guarantee quality past that date.
The comapny just wants you to throw it out and buy more if you haven’t used it fast enough for them.
If enough humidity over time gets in there, the salt can start caking and forming larger crystal clumps. However, the salt itself isn’t damaged by that process and will work fine if broken back up and used in the quality you need.
A best by date here would be a notice from the manufacturer that the product should be shelf stable at least that long before “degrading”.
Quiet you. These artificial expiration dates are the only way I can ever clean out the pantry without my SO freaking out.
Amazing, Trump was right, they were trading in salt rocks.
Highly relevant
Left next to space.
This joke only works in german.
