Numbers on back side

[housil]

They startet in 2004 printing the production code on the back side of each pouch:



Is it for 2004 only (didn´t had a newer one yet.) or is it since 2004 for every year?!


I got some MRE from ebay, the seller say´s they are all inspec. date 2009.

Non of them is having a number on the back side:



He also sent me:
No 8 Beef Patty (replaced 2005)
No 4 CCC (replaced 2004)
No 11 Pasta w/ vegetable (replaced 2005)


If there is the prod. code since 2004 on the bag, he cheatet me and I will "kick his a**" - but I need to know for sure

[kman]

I have yet to figure out when/why they put the datecodes on the back of the pouches. I recently opened up a 2007 case of MREs. 2 of the 12 MREs had the code on the back and the others didn't - and these were all supposedly from the same batch.

I think the bags since 2004 should have either an imprinted datecode near or on one of the seals on the bag - or it'll have the big datecode printed on the back.

[German_EPA]

on the newer ones the code is melted/printed in the lower welded joint.

sometimes its really clear to read - very often its nearly impossible to figure out the date.

2004 how you said
2005 is sometimes difficult to read in the welded joint
2006 i dont know
2007 its very clear melted in the welded joint

[German_EPA]

and with the older ones you can figure it out by reading: "flamesless ration heaters are ....." sometimes its missing - sometimes it was written bigger, and so on

learning by doing.

thats the way i got my 2002/2003 mres

but the best tip to check when it was produced is kmans MENU-PAGE
http://www.mreinfo.com/us/mre/mre-menus.html

[kman]

German, EPA - good catch on the FRH text...I had forgotten about that. According to what I recently put up on the MRE Bag Design page:

http://www.mreinfo.com/us/mre/mre-bag-design.html

it looks like that text first appeared in 2001. Does that sound right?

[German_EPA]

i dont know - my newest "oldest" is was 2002/2003