Frito lay is concerned with legal liability. This is the reason why they don't give away expired chips to, say, homeless shelters. The chips are perfectly fine to eat, but their lawyers tell them it makes them liable if someone gets sick from the chips, chokes, dies, etc. My employer, a very large accounting firm, used to send uneaten catered food to homeless shelters, but stopped around 2008 for the same reason, legal liability. A lot of perfectly good food gets thrown away,I take some of it home myself.