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[Bob Schroeck]

It's much the same in the United States -- Peg and I frequently joke about the spring water we buy for her coffee having an expiration date, and mock-worry about it "going bad". The law assumes that every foodstuff (and drug) goes bad at some point, regardless of common sense or scientific fact. I recall reading an article some years ago that mentioned that some medicines are so shelf-stable that they have no known expiration -- but the government requires a value for their shelf lives (and won't permit "infinite", or apparently any value over three or five years), so the drug companies just make them up, for lack of any other option. And because lawyers, most expirations you see on drug and dry food packages are actually somewhere around halfway through the actual expected shelf life.

So that salt should actually be good well through 2020, and maybe even into 2021!