TESCO Brighouse fined £35,000 , out of date food.

shammyjack

Full story http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/Tesco-fined-35000-for-selling.5068457.jp

Managers should have been jailed IMHO !

shammy

icefall

Ooh naughty Tesco. Further down in the article it mentions that the checking system failed when a member of staff went on maternity leave.

Does this mean the manager did not appoint anyone else to check the sell by dates? Bad practice then.

Roger_Rampant

Very interesting, I'm not at all surprised. My wife works for Tesco and people would not believe some of the things that happen there tbh.

leiela

oh that reminds me of when i was a kid, i used to work for a large well know food chain.

When food got out of date it was store policy to remove it from it's packaging re-package, re-date and sell it to the customers anyway.

I would be very suprised if anyone ever ate anything if they really knew what happened to it.

andrina_nightshade

Roger_Rampant wrote: »

Very interesting, I'm not at all surprised. My wife works for Tesco and people would not believe some of the things that happen there tbh.

Agreed. I worked for them for a couple of years. On several ocassions, a customer I was serving would present me with something out of date and demand to see a manager. The worst incident was a pack of stuffing that was 14 (!) months out of date.

thor

leiela wrote: »

oh that reminds me of when i was a kid, i used to work for a large well know food chain.

When food got out of date it was store policy to remove it from it's packaging re-package, re-date and sell it to the customers anyway.
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These shady going ons were exposed on TV a couple of years ago(I think it was the Tonight programme). All the supermarkets were/are at it and I am not in the least bit surprised that they have managed to brush the revelations under the carpet to continue the practises.

Dollardog

There are actually companies that are paid to take back certain out of date items, repack them under license, then send them back to the stores. All the major supermarkets do it. There was one in the midlands - North Notts I think - that got prosecuted a few years ago, can't remember the details, might have been for repackaging twice. I think it was something to do with Bailleys.
On certain foods, its ok, afterall, before dates were put on packs nobody bothered how old they were, but certainly dairy products or perishable things I wouldn't expect it.

Debt_Free_Dreamer

My mate worked for a company that was part of Caburys. Her job title was 'Stipper'. It was her job, along with others to open boxed of Cadburys chocolate and strip the wrappers off the chocolate (out of date, damaged, gone white kind of chocolate) and put in a plastic box.

This was then sent back to Cadbury's to be melted down and put back in the chocolate mix!!

They used to find mice in the boxes and all sorts of horrors. She would not eat chocolate anymore.

icefall

Debt_Free_Dreamer wrote: »

My mate worked for a company that was part of Caburys. Her job title was 'Stipper'. It was her job, along with others to open boxed of Cadburys chocolate and strip the wrappers off the chocolate (out of date, damaged, gone white kind of chocolate) and put in a plastic box.

This was then sent back to Cadbury's to be melted down and put back in the chocolate mix!!

They used to find mice in the boxes and all sorts of horrors. She would not eat chocolate anymore.

Sounds awful, surely is not true is it? When was that?

1carminestocky

We once met a couple on holiday who both used to work at a mint sauce factory. They said caterpillars and the like were regularly mashed up with the mint leaves. :eek: They were firmly of the opinion that no mint sauce product should ever be allowed to state it was OK for veggies to eat. They NEVER ate mint sauce, BTW.

thor

I'm pretty sure that all kinds of creepy crawlies are blended in too many types of foods not just mint sauce. It is probably quite difficult to avoid. Admittedly I'm a bit of a cynic but it is something I am resigned to accepting sadly:(