Poultry & meat
Tyson Batch Code Decoder
Check whether a known ordinal-date segment maps to a calendar date—without assuming that every Tyson package uses the same code.
Interpret a known Julian segment
Choose the order printed on your package. The tool converts only the numeric date segment you identify; it does not identify plant, line, or safety information.
Enter only the date-bearing digits and select their known order.
What is documented for Tyson?
Tyson publishes a frozen-product example in which the three-digit day of year comes first, followed by a one-digit year and plant, line, and hour information. Fresh products can carry a separate sell-by date, so do not apply the frozen-product example to every Tyson package.
The published example 2273PLA0114 identifies 227 as August 15, 3 as the year designation, PLA as the plant, 1 as the line, and 14 as the production hour.
Read the first-party source: Tyson Foods product-code FAQ →What this tool can confirm
Whether a numeric segment, in an order you already know, represents a valid day of year and calendar date.
What it cannot confirm
That the segment is a date, which year a short digit intended, what other characters mean, or whether a product is safe or within its quality window.
Learn the general method in how to read a Julian date code, convert an unambiguous value with the Julian date converter, and read the difference between a production date and a best-by date.