Avery Shelf Life Food Labels 103 x 47mm, 500 Per Roll

Shelf Life Food Labels

A write-on label with sections for the details. Avery's instruction is to write the date on the white section, and that the label visually identifies the discard date of prepared food. They also suggest pairing one with a 24mm round day-of-the-week label so the discard point reads at a glance.

Avery publishes no printed field names for the face, so we are not going to tell you which boxes are on it. Their own wording is simply that you write the details into the various sections.

On HACCP. Avery makes no HACCP claim for this range, and a label cannot carry one: HACCP is a food safety system a kitchen puts in place and is audited against. Clear date marking supports whatever system you run. The system is still yours.

Is it safe against the food itself? Avery's answer, on their Food Safety Labels FAQ rather than on the product page, is no: their food safety labels are not intended for direct food contact and are designed to be applied to the outside of containers, packaging or storage surfaces, which keeps the label adhesive and ink away from the food itself.

Avery publishes a temperature range of -5°C to 60°C and calls the range safe for refrigeration. That covers a fridge and a commercial cool room. It is not a freezer rating, because -5 does not reach freezer temperature.

A correction. Our own listing for this code claimed a size that is not the one Avery publishes and that the adhesive peels away cleanly. Avery publishes none of it, so it has been removed.

Avery publishes no adhesive residue claim, no shelf life for the label stock itself and no waterproof, oil or moisture resistance for this code. Where they are silent, so are we.

What these are for. Date marking prepared food, commercial kitchen storage containers and cool room and fridge stock, and similar work.

It sits in our label supplies range, alongside our Avery label category, Avery and the rest of the catalogue.