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Abstract
Expired goods are bought everyday by unsuspecting individuals who are always not aware that the goods they have bought have expired either in the kitchen or stock. This poses a health hazard to Nigerian Citizenry. This paper is aimed at designing an SMS alert system which informs consumers of goods or products that whatever goods they have bought is getting close to its expiry date or that it has expired. The system works in such a way that when you go to a shop to buy any product, your details which includes your phone number is recorded with the details of the goods bought. At the expiration period of these goods, SMS alert will be sent to you as to discard such goods if you still have them unused or unconsumed.. The front end of this software was designed with JAVA; while MySQL was used at the backend, to gather the data of the proposed SMS system. The SMS system was tested and it worked perfectly. Expiry SMS was gotten as the major system output, which is evoked depending on the inputted date in the Application program Interface. The study recommended that every business enterprise and shopping mall should introduce this system in order to reduce the rate of consumption of expired products by Nigerians. Keyboard: SMS, Expiration, Goods, Business, Customer, Alert