Asda selling out of date food

ndbruton

The sale of items past the indicated 'use by' is a strict offence under the Food Labelling Regulations 1996, punishable by a fine of up to £5000 per item. This date is applied to perishable items that if consumed after that date may have food safety implications.

However there is no offence committed under these Regs by selling items past the 'Best Before' date. This is a quality indicator only (although separate offences will have been committed under different legislation if for any reason this food is unfit for consumption).

'Display until' and 'sell by' have no legal significance, but are routinely used by food manufacturers/supermarkets to aid in their stock rotation.

If the problem persists, notify Trading Standards/Environmental Health who will investigate.

Grandmama

I have a fridge full of products, yoghurt, cheese, fruit, veg, tomatoes etc that we have bought well within the use by or best buy dates. BUT they get left in the fridge , well past those dates and I still eat the stuff as long as it looks and smells OK. Still living. Back in the 'old 'days we had no sell/use by dates, it was used when we got around to using it, not always in a fridge either. If the stuff in the shop looked 'off' we did not buy it. Still living. Maybe we have become obsessed with this 'clean' food. Our stomachs are made to cope with a fair few bugs, eating is not an aseptic procedure. We always had Jam and sand sandwich's on the beach each summer. Still living.

Charleybobs

I bought out of date orange squash at Sainsbury's once. They were extremely apologetic when they refunded me the money and by the time I had gone to the aisle to buy a different bottle they were already there checking every other bottle on the shelf. So they obviously took it very seriously!!

lincroft1710

Grandmama wrote: »

I have a fridge full of products, yoghurt, cheese, fruit, veg, tomatoes etc that we have bought well within the use by or best buy dates. BUT they get left in the fridge , well past those dates and I still eat the stuff as long as it looks and smells OK. Still living. Back in the 'old 'days we had no sell/use by dates, it was used when we got around to using it, not always in a fridge either. If the stuff in the shop looked 'off' we did not buy it. Still living. Maybe we have become obsessed with this 'clean' food. Our stomachs are made to cope with a fair few bugs, eating is not an aseptic procedure. We always had Jam and sand sandwich's on the beach each summer. Still living.

Well said!!!

rustyboy21

It like Jam, Ketchup,pickles etc. They all say once open use within 4/6 weeks and keep refrigerated.

When we were kids, the jam,pickles,sauces etc used to be kept in the larder unit in our house. Bread if it went a bit mouldy had the crust taken off and 45 years on I am still here.

BTW anyone know why bread starts to go mouldy on the crust first, even sliced bread? I thought it would affect it all over? strange...

dori2o

No idea why the crust of bread goes green first, but, something we do when the bread starts to turn.

Cut off the crusts, butter and use in bread and butter pudding.

or, if we don't feel like it, I put it in the food processor and save it up for the weekend when I go fishing.

Morglin

Grandmama wrote: »

I have a fridge full of products, yoghurt, cheese, fruit, veg, tomatoes etc that we have bought well within the use by or best buy dates. BUT they get left in the fridge , well past those dates and I still eat the stuff as long as it looks and smells OK. Still living. Back in the 'old 'days we had no sell/use by dates, it was used when we got around to using it, not always in a fridge either. If the stuff in the shop looked 'off' we did not buy it. Still living. Maybe we have become obsessed with this 'clean' food. Our stomachs are made to cope with a fair few bugs, eating is not an aseptic procedure. We always had Jam and sand sandwich's on the beach each summer. Still living.

If it looks ok and smells ok, it's ok.;)

I wonder how we all survived without 'sell-by' and 'use-by' dates lol

The only thing that really needs to be bought fresh and eaten quickly is shellfish - that can be dodgy.

Lin

allybee101

Morglin wrote: »

If it looks ok and smells ok, it's ok.;)

Too right!

I had a piece of Sirloin steak in the fridge that I mis-remembered the date on.

Two days past the use-by date on the packet, smelt fine and looked delish.
Made a tasty medium rare steak on Wednesday night for dinner.

I've also got a pot of natural yoghurt in the fridge that is 'officially' a week past its use-by date, but it's absolutely fine still.

competitionscafe

rustyboy21 wrote: »

BTW anyone know why bread starts to go mouldy on the crust first, even sliced bread? I thought it would affect it all over? strange...

Homemade bread or bread from a good bakery will not go mouldy it will just dry out and go rock hard. You can then blitz it in a food processor to make breadcrumbs. Supermarket bread does go mouldy (eventually) but it keeps longer initially because of additives etc.

"bread sold in supermarkets can be laden with artificial ingredients because loopholes in labelling rules mean they need not list all additives and processing aids"
http://grumpy.blog.co.uk/2010/03/29/the-aroma-of-freshly-baked-bread-wafting-down-the-aisles-8268034/

http://www.sustainweb.org/news/are_supermarket_bloomers_pants/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2007/01/does_your_daily_bread_contain_human_hair.html

Clark_Kent

2 weeks ago I bought some Branston Mayo from Asda Queslet in Birmingham. I came to use it yesterday, and the BBE date.......June 2010