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Don'tt buy reduced ham in Tesco!
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jobbingmusician
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I was really concerned when I visited a local Tesco and looked in their reductions section - the favourite section for all MSE'S!!! 
. On the bottom shelf various cuts of meat were displayed as reduced. These included raw meat, wrapped in plastic which in some cases was becoming loose. There was also some cut ham from the delicatessen department which was loosely wrapped.
I was extremely concerned to see that raw meat wrapped in a bloodstained bag was standing directly on top of the loose ham. There was an obvious risk that bacteria from the raw meat could contaminate the cooked meat.
Of course I understand that customers can move the display around, but I thought that this posed a real risk of food poisoning to anyone buying the ham. I therefore went to the till area and reported the matter to the person I thought looked most like a manager!!! I explained the situation, and the risk I felt that it posed, to him and he agreed with me that it did pose a risk. However, he then strolled off towards the tills and seemed to make no attempt to sort things out.....
Hmmmm! I've actually written to the store and will let you know what response I get. In the mean time, think twice before you buy cooked meats in Tesco's......:eek:

. On the bottom shelf various cuts of meat were displayed as reduced. These included raw meat, wrapped in plastic which in some cases was becoming loose. There was also some cut ham from the delicatessen department which was loosely wrapped.
I was extremely concerned to see that raw meat wrapped in a bloodstained bag was standing directly on top of the loose ham. There was an obvious risk that bacteria from the raw meat could contaminate the cooked meat.
Of course I understand that customers can move the display around, but I thought that this posed a real risk of food poisoning to anyone buying the ham. I therefore went to the till area and reported the matter to the person I thought looked most like a manager!!! I explained the situation, and the risk I felt that it posed, to him and he agreed with me that it did pose a risk. However, he then strolled off towards the tills and seemed to make no attempt to sort things out.....
Hmmmm! I've actually written to the store and will let you know what response I get. In the mean time, think twice before you buy cooked meats in Tesco's......:eek:
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Eeuw ... thanks for that.The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. An ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.0
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Scarey!
I bet there are loads more horrors that go on behind the scenes, how about all the people who work in these places coming on to tell us about them.Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should get used to it.;)
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jobbingmusician wrote:I was really concerned when I visited a local Tesco and looked in their reductions section - the favourite section for all MSE'S!!!
. On the bottom shelf various cuts of meat were displayed as reduced. These included raw meat, wrapped in plastic which in some cases was becoming loose. There was also some cut ham from the delicatessen department which was loosely wrapped.
I was extremely concerned to see that raw meat wrapped in a bloodstained bag was standing directly on top of the loose ham. There was an obvious risk that bacteria from the raw meat could contaminate the cooked meat.
Of course I understand that customers can move the display around, but I thought that this posed a real risk of food poisoning to anyone buying the ham. I therefore went to the till area and reported the matter to the person I thought looked most like a manager!!! I explained the situation, and the risk I felt that it posed, to him and he agreed with me that it did pose a risk. However, he then strolled off towards the tills and seemed to make no attempt to sort things out.....
Hmmmm! I've actually written to the store and will let you know what response I get. In the mean time, think twice before you buy cooked meats in Tesco's......:eek:
that must be just ur tesco as ive not come across anything like thatNo Links in Signature by site rules - MSE Forum Team 20 -
I can understand your concern, but I work for a laboratory that test foods and there would have been very little risk here in the situation described above0
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I used to work on the deli in my local Safeway, and one of the girls I worked with would go into the fridge, open the tubs of coleslaw etc., and scoop it out with her hand to eat!
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So why do restaurants get a yellow card from Environmental Health if they store cooked meat below fresh?0
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That's one thing I love about our asda, all the reduced stuff is stored in separate fridges, cooked in one fridge in one isle, uncooked in another fridge in another isle, fruit and veg in another. I would never buy reduced items from the tesco round here for exactly the reasons you have described OP, they just throw everything together in the same fridge0
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Having found a winged insect in a bag of frozen spinach last night I am reluctant to buy any food again!0
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