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Old 18 June 2007, 07:22 AM
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Got a rumor that unsold milk is returned to the milk bottler to be
re-pasturized, re-packaged, and, eventually resold. The rumor goes on to
say that the number of re-pasturizatiions is included in the use-buy date
info stamped on the carton. I think this rumor is nuts, but what do they
do with unsold milk?
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Old 18 June 2007, 01:05 PM
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I don't know about other places, but when I worked in the dairy section of a Wal-mart Supercenter, if the milk was on or after it's sell by date, we had to dump the product down the drain and we returned the cartons/jugs (whatever you call them...too early in the morning for me) for credit from the suppliers.

And trust me, I once spent almost an entire night in the back cooler doing just this. And some of what I dumped was very obviously past its sell by date.
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Old 18 June 2007, 03:54 PM
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Ah-HA!
but aren't you leaving out the critical detail that the drain actually led to a giant milk tank where it was re-pasteurized to be subsequently rebottled and sold?


ah.. ok
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