GOING cold turkey this Christmas has a whole different meaning, particularly if the turkey is frozen.
Some of the frozen birds on supermarket shelves might have been there for up to three years, but a food-labelling loophole means that consumers will never know.
Foods standards in Australia allow frozen foods such as turkey, which are determined as having a shelf life longer than two years, not to have the “best by” date label on the product.
But many frozen products are stamped with a secret code indecipherable to the public that allows the supermarkets to keep track of the food’s age.
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