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Is 'This product can be spoiled' semantically ambiguous?

Updated: 8/21/2019
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I see 'this product can be spoiled' as ambiguous sentence.

I am not a native speaker of English, so I am not sure whether I got it right, but I interpret that sentence as

1. this product can be spoiled (by someone)

it is not spoiled yet, but it can be in future

2. this product can be (already) spoiled

this can be the spoiled one among other non-spoiled ones.

or it is possible that this product is spoiled.

Am I wrong to see that ambiguous or is there ambiguity?

it's in EFL society/situation

it was written on the wrap of a burger as a caution with another language with english for English speaking foreigners to encourage people to eat before it turns bad

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