We made a purchase a short while back of Tree of Life Organic Peanut Butter - a small jar costing $5.49. This product had no "best if used by'" date, no " sell by" date, and no information or codes aside from the UPC. I contacted this conpany, and found out several things they dont tell you :
First, that the product has a shelf life of about 260 days ...but without a manufactured date or use by date it is impossibke to know when it is no longer any good. The oil separated, and the product could not be remixed, and when we tasted it, it had the stalest peanut taste we have ever encountered
Second, the peanut butter is made by an outside company for them, so one does not know whether the product is actually made from organically grown peanuts and the name of the company that makes it was not provided.

We were told on several occasions when we called that we would have to speak to the customer service manager, who was "in another building ". When we finally got his direct phone line, we called & had to leave a voice mail - We then called the company headquarters, and were told he was out of town and his immediate supervisor was also out of town.
Upon further research we found that Tree of Life is not a small independent company any longer - it had been bought out some time ago by a Netherlands conglomerate.

The "corporate receptionist" that I last spoke with said she would have the customer service representative call me on Tuesday next (i.e., Jan. 12th) to straighten out this problem. We will see!