large piece of plastic found in chicken pasta salad

shaun_from_Africa

yes the last thing any store wants is EVH officers tramping through their store

Unless the pasta salad was prepared or packed in the store, I can't see that anyone from environmental health or trading standards would even consider visiting the store.

All they will probably do is to find out the name of the suppliers of the product and aim any investigation at them.

fluffnutter

God, genetic modification's just gone too far, hasn't it? They're now breeding chickens with plastic bones - makes them lighter thus saving millions in transportation costs each year. Makes for alarming eating occasionally though. Watch out!

giraffe69

Quite a good example of the compensation culture. Upon discovering the offending object you could
1. discard it and eat the product
2. throw it all away
3. be a bit annoyed and tell ASDA who would no doubt as others have said replace it and perhaps offer a voucher for the inconvenience
or
4. Start shouting that you want companesation from all and sundry for something that, in the grand scheme of things, is rather minor

ccotaxc

Is this another wind up? like yesterdays "Bike Compensation"?

tootiemac

Hi Having worked for ASDA for almost 5 years on the service desk. I can assure that the store has to take action on any matter of this kind. If you return it to store they will refund and replace if you wish. Then it will be logged onto the systems as an unkown object in food, they will take your deatils to add to this and you can request that you get a response and to learn the outcome. This is then sent to the head office where the pieces will also be sent for investigation. Once the investigation is complete you should recieve a letter of outcome if you requested it and most likely some kind of compensation voucher. This has been the way it has always happened.

pendulum

Hintza wrote: »

Why is it silly? Why would it have necessarily contaminated the pasta?

If you find one thing that shouldn't be there in your food, there could be other smaller peices. I wouldn't want to eat it either, so I'd be getting a refund.

I bet if someone did continue eating after pulling out a bit of plastic, and another bit of plastic cut in to the roof of their mouth, they'd be blamed (probably by some of those who are now saying "just take it out and eat it") for continuing to eat what they knew was contaminated food.