Two lines of code on top of the can. The top line, the first two characters are the date portion. The first character is a letter indicating the month and the second character is a digit indicating the year. On a code of139C8, first 3 digits are Julian date. The C is the mfg. plant.
Last number is the year.
CODE will indicate the date the food was packed. Next three digits is the Julian date. On second line, first digit is plant, middle 3 is Julian day of year. The next number is year, then 24-hour time. Date is stamped.