1. No you don't have to refrigerate after opening, but if you don't and it needs you to, it will go bad. 2. Fwiw, the only time a company is required to put an expiry date on their product is if its shelf life is less than 1 year. As for Scorned Woman, either she has a shelf-life of less than a year OR she simply wants to put that date on there so she knows when they were made in case of recall??? T --- Sandy Olson <sandyo@myclearwave.net> wrote: > Two questions for the producers and knowledgeable > re: hot sauce: > > 1. Do you really have to "refrigerate after > opening"? > > 2. Does it really die (i.e. become unsafe to > consume) after the expiration > date on the bottle? Doesn't anyone remember when > things simply didn't have > expiration dates...you smelled the milk and if it > smelled funny, you threw > it away ;^) > > SandyO > CH #1146 > > > ===== Tina Brooks VP Marketing, Peppermaster Hot Sauces www.peppermaster.com Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc. Phone: (450) 451-6770 26 St. Jean Baptiste Rigaud, Quebec J0P 1P0 ===== Join our hot pepper discussion group at http://www.thehotpepper.com Have you ever had an Elephant Pepper??? No? Ask me about my Elephant Pepper project: Feeding the world, one pepper at a time. =====