I think Agman is correct. I don't think it is possible to to repackage cryovaced meat because once oxygen hits it it's shelf life is limited. I think I confused marinated packageing with vaccum packaging. I purchace meat once in a while from a retail outlet of a wholesale distribiutor. He was the one that told me that after a certain date the vaccum packaged meat was frozen and resold. There is probably nothing wrong with this practise as long as the dates are adhered to. The meat I had problems with was cryovaced wholsale cuts. These particular packages didn't have a freshness date or a grade on them. They could have been bad from the start, but I'd like to have that info on the package when I buy it. Who wants to go to a computer and hunt it up before yoiu buy some meat?