Do not use food after its use-by date. Past that date it may be unsafe even if it looks and smells perfectly fine. A use-by date is a hard line, like a critical limit.
Best-before is about quality, not safety. After this date food may lose flavour or texture but is generally still safe to eat. It is a guide, not a hard limit.
When you open or decant something, label it with the relevant date so its life is tracked once it leaves its original packaging.
Record what came in and its batch code, so any item on site can be traced back to the delivery it arrived on.
Your supplier has recalled batch B-4471, cooked chicken. Open each record and follow where that batch went.
0 of 3 records openedNothing yet. Without the records, batch B-4471 is just an anonymous box and there is no way to know where it went.
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