I've just realised I've been reading milk bottle 'use by' labels wrong for years

Nov 19, 2023

A WOMAN has been left stunned after discovering she's been reading the "use by" labels on milk bottles wrong for years.

Chrissy took to TikTok to share a video of herself toting a bottle of milk, before zooming in on the date and time listed on the bottle - 25th January and 13.44.

"I used to think milk went out of date at a specific time of day," she wrote over the top.

"Goodbye at 1.44pm."

"Not me, still thinking that," Chrissy captioned her video.

And people in the comments section were quick to admit that she wasn't the only one to have made that mistake.

"WAIT IT ISN'T!?" one wrote.

"i thought i was the only one??" another added.

"Hold on a second it does mean that," a third commented.

While others revealed what the time is actually there to indicate.

"Batch code and time, not used by time," one wrote.

"That's batch number above the time and time of batch packing," another added.

As a third commented: "that's the time it went through the print process."