Watch for expiry dates on baby food

By NUNATSIAQ NEWS

This letter is to all mothers and mothers-to-be. Before you buy baby milk or baby food, please check the expiry date.

When my son was going on to formula milk, that is when I learned to check expiry dates. He was six months old in October 2000.

I went to buy formula milk and the store I usually buy from had run out. So we went to Arctic Ventures. I just took some off the shelf and my husband said to look at the expiry date first. It had expired 16 months ago. We started looking at all of them, and maybe 10 of 20 were expired.

Then my son went on baby food — same thing with the baby food (outdated six to eight months before). I was so pissed off I asked the worker to see if they had any others in stock in the back, but they didn’t have any.

Now that I have a little girl, she is on baby food now. The store was closed and I had to get some stuff and some baby food. I again went to Arctic Ventures. I checked the expiry dates on the food, so I grabbed 10 jars. In the morning, I was getting ready to feed my daughter, and for some reason I checked the date. It was expired (February 2001). Out of the 10 I bought, I had to return four jars.

When I got to the store, I went to replace them. When I started looking at the jars, there were some that went back as far as September 2001 and July 2000. That is almost two years ago.

This is my kid’s life and others that you are supplying milk and food for.

Joan Cunha
Iqaluit

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