AIR4140 - Alcoholic Ingredients Relief: Technical guidance: What about eligible articles with short lives?

Sometimes sauces or other eligible articles are produced for “quick meals”. These products are eligible for Alcoholic Ingredients Relief. However, if the sauce goes off before it can be used, or other eligible articles go past their sell by date, the important thing is that the alcohol was used in an eligible article. Whether it was actually used or not before its sell by date is immaterial. The Alcoholic Ingredients Relief claim is still valid.