Costco Food safety expectations 2018

We use only Julian  date code for shipping records, identification and tracilblility .

 We  ship regularly to Costco and  never had issues. Last line (in red ) says its not acceptable.

I will highly appreciate Any recommendations  or experiences with Costco on this issue .

This is stated in Costco's Food safety Expecttions  June 2018 :

PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION

At a minimum, all product sold to Costco must be marked with a use-by, sell by or best before date that

can be used for traceability/ recall purposes. Produce items should also include a packed on date or

scannable barcode that can provide traceability recall information. Julian code dating is not acceptable.

Thanks

Julian dates work for you.........but for Costco.........there is no information readily available to them

In order to comply you need to change your code to either 

A) incorporate a Use By (so 6 months from the Julian date)

B) list ONLY a use by date

C) Best Before  MM/DD/YY

In the beginning, it's probably easiest for you to follow A above. It allows you to maintain your current traceability system and make Costco happy.  In order to get a use by date, you really need to send it out for shelf life testing.......unless it's something like fresh bread where you know you've only got 5 days