Sorry for the juvenile joke, but I cannot help imagining an assembly worker picking up the bag, shouting "ur mom's FAT!" and stamping "roasted on Oct 7 2024" :D

I don't think this law forbids producers from adding supplemental dates? So a coffee container could conceivably have both dates

Same. I only buy the ones that have the roast date because most of the best if used by dates are around a year after the roast date. Cannot trust that.

There’s frankly a huge variation between the OMG it was roasted two weeks ago and the OK it’s only been a few months crowd.