Tesco sold me out of date baby formula!

themull1

The milk won't be off, it was a best before date, doesn't mean the day after it will be off. I always check the best before dates on stuff, especially meat/fish, i would have accepted the £20.00.

thorsoak

Tesco sold you out of date formula. They made a mistake.

You bought out of date formula - you didn't read the bb date - you made a mistake.

Tesco have apologised, offered a full replacement refund + £20 compensation.

What more do you want? To sue the pants off them? Why???

WASHER

I think the op is slightly over reacting IMO, the milk would have been fine.

Personally I think the £20 gesture was more than enough.

People at Tesco's are human, they have an awful lot of products to date check, sometimes things slip by.

Take the offer of the £20 (to spend instore) and forget about it, life is too short.

irishjohn

Can anyone explain to me the difference between Tesco sold me and I bought?

It seems to me that an awful lot of posters prefer to use the former statement when perhaps they should use the latter?

Of course our stores should check all the dates on their stock and make sure it is current. I popped into my large Tesco last Thursday to buy some bread and all the staff were frantically replenishing the shelves being emptied rapidly buy customers who looked like they were buying rather than being sold to. Now perhaps half of the staff should have been diverted to checking dates on stock on shelves and customers would have had to do without things which may have stayed off the shelves. Or perhaps the customer, should check dates as they select products and be sure it is within date and allow staff to carry on replenishing.

To be honest as soon as I read the words ****** sold me in this forum I know I am about to read another rant from someone who unfortunately does not seem to be able to accept responsibility for their own actions and looks for someone else to blame. Please God they remain in the minority or we are all doomed.

chickywiggle

can't see a problem with the jan 2011 ones...... last time i looked it was december 2010.

plenty of countries don't steralisese, plenty of babies live to tell the tale.

Personally yes I would have been cross at tesco but would have happily accepted an investigation and £20 gift card given the price of baby milk. must admit I fed my baby boy formula for a year and never once checked the use by or best before dates - for all i know he could have had well out of date milk.

Poor baby when it comes to playing in the garden and eating dirt.... perhaps a bubble would be useful?

celinepatricia

irishjohn wrote: »

Can anyone explain to me the difference between Tesco sold me and I bought?

Is it not illegal for Tesco to have products on their shelves that are not in date?

money_saving_diva

I used sma for my son and I seem to remember the date is stamped big on the metal lid you pull isn't it?? So it's obvious?? Or is it on the base?

I don't really understand why you didn't check the date?

Yes tescos shouldn't have sold you the early dec 2010 stuff but jan 2011 is ok.

I think £20 & an investigation is the best you can expect. Talk to your gp or hv if your worried about your baby but it was only a month out of date not years as you seem to be implying??

ellay864

There's going to be far more bugs around in your house, and on you than in a carton on unopened and slightly after best before date. Some unconstituted powder isn't going to make your baby ill and the best before dates are a guide...most foods beyond that date will do you no harm at all. The aim of sterilising is to remove those outside germy things, but really it's a pretty pointless exercise! Once they start crawling they're touching and chewing on all sorts of stuff that will have far more bugs on them...even before then they're getting contact with bugs off all kinds of places as you will touch plenty of unsterilised surfaces. If they didn't get exposed to them they'd have no resistance to anything

hardpressed

Sell by and use by dates hadn't been invented when my baby had formula milk 30 years ago, he survived.

Becles

Ready made baby milk cartons are ultra heat treated (UHT). This means the milk is heated to a high temperature (think it's 130°C) which kills all of the bacteria in the milk.

If bacteria is left in the milk, it would spoil quite quickly after production. Growing bacteria give off gas, which would show as bulges in the carton, and it may explode on opening, so you would know something was wrong.

As the cartons have lasted until after the best before date, it's fair to assume there was no bacteria present in the milk.

The milk may have deteriorate due to age. Sometimes the fat separates off into a layer or the protein breaks down giving it a lumpy texture, but you would have noticed this when you poured it into the bottles. It's fair to assume if you noticed either of these things, you'd have checked the carton and not given the milk to your baby.

As your baby is perfectly well and healthy and the milk looked normal, I'd say you have nothing to worry about and £20 compensation is a fair gesture from Tesco.

You can't claim compensation for what might have happened, only what did happen. Tesco is huge and they can't physically check the date on every single product on a regular basis. Supermarkets tend to concentrate date checking on short shelf life produce as that can spoil and cause illness.