Actually when I asked this customer to take all stocks of ex-distributor in Sep, I sent all samples to him and didn't get any comment/complaint. I am not sure how much it has changed from there till now kaa.
I also have the same concern with you about the product acceptance since you sound very worried now but this was the best way I could do to solve the problem of this stock lot at that time, given my info on hand ka. I really didn't know before that the product has only 9 months life, otherwise I wouldn't offer them to the ex and new distributor because they are serious with the shelf life of the products. Both of them strongly requested us several times to extend our ink code of our fruit juice to 12 months due to too short shelf life of 10 months for trade in Korea ka.
Just For your info, our new Korean distributor (who is one of our ex-distributor customers) is quite sensitive with the change of the product during shelf life ka. Our juice team also just got one claim yesterday that our orange juice's and mango juice's color with 2 production lots turned very dark (much darker than other lots) at 6-7 months. As the color is really darker than the standard spec of qa, we will also have to make the decision on that claim ka.