Under Regulation 10 of the Food Regulation, the expiry dates of prepacked food products may be declared in one of the following ways, in letters not less than 3mm in height:

(a) “USE BY (here insert the day, month and year)”;
(b) “SELL BY (here insert the day, month and year)”;
(c) “EXPIRY DATE (here insert the day, month and year)”; or
(d) “BEST BEFORE (here insert the day, month and year)"

The date in the date mark is to be expressed in the following manner:

(i) the day of the month shall be expressed in figures, where the figure is a single digit it shall be preceded by a zero;
(ii) the month of the year shall be expressed in words and may be abbreviated by using the first 3 letters of the alphabet of the month except that where the day is shown first then followed by the month and year, the month may be expressed in figures; and
(iii) the year shall be expressed in figures in full or by the last two figures of the year.

In addition, it is not necessary to state —

(i) the year in the date mark of items 1 to 8 of the Second Schedule; or
(ii) the day in the date mark of items 9 to 19 of the Second Schedule.