Chicken in a balloon like plastic bag

pambie

I've just bought a small chicken from Tesco and the plastic bag that it's in is full of air, bit like a balloon.
Does this mean that there is something wrong with the chicken, or just the way it's pagkaged?
Thanks.

crazyguy

Open it and smell if it smells rancid then dont eat it,

dlusman

This page

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1392231/Food-past-use-date-Still-perfectly-safe-eat-according-Tom-Rawstorne.html

describes the same effect. It states :

A week after its ‘use by’ date stamp, the pack in my fridge is inflated with a foul-smelling bacterial gas. Dr Dinsdale says that, on his samples, this was even the case on the chicken’s ‘use by’ date. Cooking the meat will kill the bacteria.

Dr Dinsdale explains: ‘The chicken was safe to eat, and I cooked and ate it, although the “off” odour in the chicken was noticeable. Most people would, rightly, be guided by their noses and not eat this

rising_from_the_ashes

I've had a couple of bits of meat that this has happened too and it's always smelt vile when I've opened it and I've taken it back and got a refund

renegade

pambie wrote: »

I've just bought a small chicken from Tesco and the plastic bag that it's in is full of air, bit like a balloon.
Does this mean that there is something wrong with the chicken, or just the way it's pagkaged?
Thanks.

Why on earth did you buy it then?

gnvqsos

crazyguy wrote: »

Open it and smell if it smells rancid then dont eat it,

rinse in brine and eat after flushing out

tbw

All the chickens in the 3 for £10/4 for £12 meat deal were like this when I bought some a couple of weeks ago. I don't think it was a case of the meat giving off gas, it seemed to be a different way of packing them. I seem to remember reading something about using some sort of gas to improve the keeping qualities of various different foods.

Anyway, I used one straight away - it didn't smell any different when unpacked and neither DH nor I noticed any difference in taste and neither of us were ill. One went straight into the freezer and was defrosted and cooked last weekedn. Again, no obvious problems and no ill effects.

emmaloualex

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

I've had a couple of bits of meat that this has happened too and it's always smelt vile when I've opened it and I've taken it back and got a refund

Hi i've also had to take a chicken/mince back to Tesco and always make sure they put a complaint into head office whilst i'm at CS desk and then a £5 moneycard has arrived in the post a couple of days later each time by way of apology

steviedeal

ive found this since tesco has had this new way of packaging chickens the packs always seem infalted like they have "blown" and gone off, but the chicken is actually fine inside, also the dates seem to be getting longer, bought some chickens from tesco a few weeks ago with about 9/10 days life on it!!!