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Accidentally bought expired canned food and ate it. didn't realize till later. should i be worried?
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Often the major: issue with expired food is that it loses it's food/ nutrition value. Don't know what kind of food it was - so don't know if there would be any toxic effects.
Answered 5/20/2015
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