MRE shelf life NEW GUIDANCE

[hobo]

Bu**er, this'll hit part of my food storage pretty hard if accurate.

New info from MREinfo.com suggests a 60% REDUCTION in shelf life.

http://www.readymeal.com/shelflifechart.html

Though the cynic in me might say this could be a marketing ploy to increase sales.....

[pseudonym]

Is that just that producer's MRE's though?

The British Army rations are still OK.

[hobo]

Is that just that producer's MRE's though?

The British Army rations are still OK.

I imagine so ... but they'll be made to common standards. Dunno about the shelf life of the Brit ones though.

[pseudonym]

IIRC when I was in Iraq, the American MREs had to be refridgerated, the UK ones didn't.

That might of been Temperature related though