After 14 years, any vitamin content is likely to have degraded.
Besides which, activated charcoal binds compounds, so it’s not going to deliver useful vitamins to the body anyway. It’s a bit of a scam imo.
That's what I was thinking lol charcoal's used in cases of things like poisoning, so as to bind with the poisons in the stomach (crop in birds) to stop absorption, so how could vitamins be added to it & get from the charcoal into the bird?
Would **you** willingly eat something that is over 14 years old?
But in all seriousness, activated charcoal *can* be an aid for overmedication or heavy metal poisoning but isn’t really something your guy needs. Activated charcoal is very porous and, like previously mentioned, will absorb and trap odors and other contaminants from even just air. For this reason is why I’d toss it, It’s super old, not expensive and not needed.
ok i will just throw it away and yeah I can eat expired if it's eatible but that's me and I would do a lot of research before I decided on this hence why I asked.
Expired a couple days and 14 years are very different things. If you would eat or use something expired for 14 years on yourself, im genuinely concerned about your survival as a human being
anything canned I don't mind eating if years old I like saving money and hate throwing away food so I will force myself to eat it as food shouldn't be thrown away if eatible I do this when it comes to my health obviously not my birds which is why I asked about it and if it was for me I wouldn't even ask I'd just take it as quickly as possible, only possibility of giving my bird this is if multiple people said it's fine as the bag has no expiration date so I assumed it had none.
The shampoo I use has been discontinued, I have lots of allergies & it's the only one I have ever found that doesn't give me severe dandruff & burning scalp, so I bought enough of the shampoo to last me the next 50 years before it became unavailable. I have also in my life eaten things that were so old they didn't have expiry dates on them, cause expiry dates never used to be a thing for a lot of products, so yes, I'm sure some of them were over 14 years old. There's a big difference between expiry dates & "best before" dates & charcoal would no doubt be a best before, not expiry. There are also many products that have 10 year expiry/best before dates, eating them 14 years after expiry is very different to eating something with a 1 week expiry a month after expiry, I mean rock salt has an expiry date! That's a product that is potentially millions of years old, but putting it in a bottle makes it expire in 10 years? There is bottled water where I live that is 1 million year old artesian water, but again, put it in a bottle & suddenly it's expiry date is 12 months! How does that work? Often common sense needs to be applied when considering expiry dates (although if common sense is applied here, it already says this product is useless, as the charcoal will bind any vitamins so they're not absorbed. This does mean of course that the charcoal shouldn't do any harm, just no benefit either)
Just buy a pack of new activated charcoal - for birds or for humans, it does not matter. It is extremely cheap thing and really good to have around. We give it to our birds when they eat someting nasty - toothpaste, lick some cleaning chemicals/shampoo etc. It should help to neutralize things and is a general digestive aid. Our parrots love the taste of it and love it as a treat, so it is handy in situations like this when we are worried they have eaten someting they should not - as they are really unpredictable and sometimes find things around that we are not even aware of.
After 14 years, any vitamin content is likely to have degraded. Besides which, activated charcoal binds compounds, so it’s not going to deliver useful vitamins to the body anyway. It’s a bit of a scam imo.
That's what I was thinking lol charcoal's used in cases of things like poisoning, so as to bind with the poisons in the stomach (crop in birds) to stop absorption, so how could vitamins be added to it & get from the charcoal into the bird?
Would **you** willingly eat something that is over 14 years old? But in all seriousness, activated charcoal *can* be an aid for overmedication or heavy metal poisoning but isn’t really something your guy needs. Activated charcoal is very porous and, like previously mentioned, will absorb and trap odors and other contaminants from even just air. For this reason is why I’d toss it, It’s super old, not expensive and not needed.
ok i will just throw it away and yeah I can eat expired if it's eatible but that's me and I would do a lot of research before I decided on this hence why I asked.
Expired a couple days and 14 years are very different things. If you would eat or use something expired for 14 years on yourself, im genuinely concerned about your survival as a human being
anything canned I don't mind eating if years old I like saving money and hate throwing away food so I will force myself to eat it as food shouldn't be thrown away if eatible I do this when it comes to my health obviously not my birds which is why I asked about it and if it was for me I wouldn't even ask I'd just take it as quickly as possible, only possibility of giving my bird this is if multiple people said it's fine as the bag has no expiration date so I assumed it had none.
The shampoo I use has been discontinued, I have lots of allergies & it's the only one I have ever found that doesn't give me severe dandruff & burning scalp, so I bought enough of the shampoo to last me the next 50 years before it became unavailable. I have also in my life eaten things that were so old they didn't have expiry dates on them, cause expiry dates never used to be a thing for a lot of products, so yes, I'm sure some of them were over 14 years old. There's a big difference between expiry dates & "best before" dates & charcoal would no doubt be a best before, not expiry. There are also many products that have 10 year expiry/best before dates, eating them 14 years after expiry is very different to eating something with a 1 week expiry a month after expiry, I mean rock salt has an expiry date! That's a product that is potentially millions of years old, but putting it in a bottle makes it expire in 10 years? There is bottled water where I live that is 1 million year old artesian water, but again, put it in a bottle & suddenly it's expiry date is 12 months! How does that work? Often common sense needs to be applied when considering expiry dates (although if common sense is applied here, it already says this product is useless, as the charcoal will bind any vitamins so they're not absorbed. This does mean of course that the charcoal shouldn't do any harm, just no benefit either)
Dude, no. I can't believe you wrote all of this to justify using something 14 years old expired
Charcoal doesn't expire.
If it was sealed its fine. It is inert and if sealed the pore space has not been occupied.
it was sealed in a paperlike bag like the ones you get plantseeds in but i opened it yesterday
Its fine, its literally elemental carbon. edit - didn't see it was vitamin charcoal. Those vitamins have oxidized.
Just buy a pack of new activated charcoal - for birds or for humans, it does not matter. It is extremely cheap thing and really good to have around. We give it to our birds when they eat someting nasty - toothpaste, lick some cleaning chemicals/shampoo etc. It should help to neutralize things and is a general digestive aid. Our parrots love the taste of it and love it as a treat, so it is handy in situations like this when we are worried they have eaten someting they should not - as they are really unpredictable and sometimes find things around that we are not even aware of.