Expiration dates

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Examples of expiration dates

EXP:02/2017
BB:03/2017

Date formats on Russian products

DD.MM.YYYY
DD.MM.YY
DD/MM/YYYY
DD/MM/YY
DDMMYY
DD MM YY
Maybe: DDMMYYYY
Non-date stuff (location/company/people/ingredients): anything, but usually separated from the date with whitespace or punctuation.

Two untagged dates

 \date
 \date. \time
 \date
 \time
 \date
11.07.2016
15:41
31.07.2016
 \date \time
 \date
16.04.16 21:35
11.01.17
11/03/16 14:55
11/01/17
22.06.16.11Д 05:37
27.07.16.A61L

"11Д" and "A61L" are non-date.

25.11.15 11704
10.12.15 П79
27.05.16  B 06836
06.06.16    п31C1
25 02 16 1 5
25 02 17
 \date(\nondate)
 \time \nondate
 \date
 29/08/16(M)
 15:02 71 X
 29/08/17

M, X, 71 are non-date.

24.05.2015г
24.05.2016г

(a letter for "год" ["year"] right after the year without a space; incorrect punctuation, so rare)

\date
\date. \time
24.05.16
24.05.17. 22:11
 19/07/16
 19/07/17
 U    GU
26.08.16
25.06.17
\date.
\date.
08.10.16.
13.10.16.
 22.08.15D
 22.08.16

The "D" can be any English or Russian letter.

 25.05.16 G
 L  14:14
 25.05.17 16
 13.06.14 16:12 B N23 n22
          13.06.16
 СРОК ГОДНОСТИ СООТВЕТСТВУЕТ
       СРОКУ ХРАНЕНИЯ

The text says "use by" (do not use after) = "freshness life" (has specified properties until).

06/07/2015 17:08
06/03/2016 2 7633


Two untagged dates (single line)

23.08.16 - 20.05.17 L236ZR- - 12:53 2

Would seem obvious, but sometimes the production date is to the left of the expiration date.

030515 280116 1 V 3

Kind of unusual.

Both prod and exp, says which is which correctly

ГОДЕН ДО 23.12.17/RU
ИЗГОТ:01.07.16
ГОДЕН 02.02.18 12:17 V11 RU
ИЗГ   03.02.16 60343668А4
  • Use by: "годен до", "срок годности".
  • produced/production: "изготовлен", "дата изготовления"
Дата изготовления:
[Same in Kazakh]
23/05/16(M)
22:12 51 X
23/05/17

Годен до:
Жарамды мерзімі:
PR 22.05.16  335398
EX 22.11.17  01:52
ИЗГОТ.   18.12.15  05:47
ГОДЕН ДО 14.08.16


ИЗГ 01.08.16
ГОД 11.08.16
 Дата изготовления (число, месяц, год):
 
 12.05.16-3
 11.03.17
 
 Годен до (число, месяц, год):

The comments are small; the dates printed separately.

Strange formats

Дата производства:   Употребить до:
22.09.16.U.13.10.16(3)
ДАТА РОЗЛИВА: / ГОДЕН ДО:

20:03:04/03:07:04/L2

Розлив — bottling.

Production date only

Изготовлено и упаковано, номер партии

22.06.16
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