Find out when your The Merchant of Venice product was made.
A short string of letters and digits, printed or stamped on the packaging.
Printed in small type or stamped into the material — usually with no label next to it. It is not the barcode.




Look on the base of the bottle or jar, the crimped tail of a tube, or the bottom flap of the box. It is a short string stamped or printed in small type — not the barcode.
Yes — lot number, lot code and batch code all mean the same string on your The Merchant of Venice packaging. American packaging and shoppers tend to say lot number; British and European ones say batch code. Enter it either way.
We only show a date when we can decode it with a rule we have verified for that brand, and we have not verified one for this brand yet. We would rather say so than guess. Enter your code above — we add brands in the order people ask for them.
No. The barcode is the 12–14 digit number under the striped label and identifies the product, not the batch — it contains no date at all. This is the single most common mistake.
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