Talk:Period-after-opening symbol

Man, that was bugin' me!
Nice one.That symbol was bugin' me for ages- hadn't a clue what it was. Cheers. --Trounce 20:20, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Me too. Shows that it is not that good a symbol.--  ExpImp talk con 00:28, 23 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree, poor design. Why not just have a use-by date like on food?-We all know what that is.--Trounce 10:27, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Here's another one that was puzzling me--Trounce (talk) 11:56, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

According to the regulations, an unopened pack of cosmetic product, should be stable and safe to use for 30 months after manufacture. If it falls apart before that, it is still legal to sell, but has to be marked with an expiration date like food The PAO was introduced to encourage the disposal of part used stuff kicking about on the shelf for ages and going manky. I agree that very few members of the public are actually educated to what on earth it isValueaddedwater (talk) 08:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

On reference desk previously
Reference_desk_archive/Miscellaneous/December_2005 Thanks to Markus for writing it up. – Kaihsu 19:22, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Are durations other than in months ever used?
And if so, are there standard abbreviations for "day", "year", etc? --Random832 (contribs) 17:44, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * My understanding is that the regulations also mention the possibility to mark years, but do not actually specify the abbreviation to be used. In practice, I've never seen anything other than months being used. If someone is looking for an existing list of letter codes to denote time periods that is compatible with the "36M" notation used on the PAO symbol, have a look at the time period notation of ISO 8601. Markus Kuhn (talk) 14:20, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Text or Picture issue???
According to the text, the period should be denoted onto the front side of the depicted pot, or to the right of it. - however, the middle picture depicts a label with the text beneath the symbol. So the question remains...

...a text issue or an inappropriate picture chosen? - VicVal (talk) 19:08, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Time Period Description
I changed "three years" to "thirty-six months" because "36M" is better described that way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Horse Badorties (talk • contribs) 14:04, 31 July 2010 (UTC)