Disgusting hygiene standards at Sainsburys

shellsuit

Our big local Sainsbury's deli counter closed down recently, because of listeria.

http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/9803923.Upton_supermarket_delicatessen_is_closed_after_listeria_found_in_food/

geordie_joe

shellsuit wrote: »

Our big local Sainsbury's deli counter closed down recently, because of listeria.

http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/9803923.Upton_supermarket_delicatessen_is_closed_after_listeria_found_in_food/

Yes but to be fair, it was in the food. No amount of hand washing or wearing gloves would help in that situation.

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Chris_M_3

Some of the staff at my local Tesco having disgusting hygiene habits.

After finishing night-shift at 6am, I usually visit my local Tesco and this is the time that the staff pick the online orders. They wheel a cart around and pick the order. In the fruit/veg aisle, they will lick their fingers to prise open a new plastic bag, pick loose fruit/veg and put it in the bag.....lick their fingers again to prise open the next plastic bag and so on and so on.... :eek:

So beware if you order loose fruit/veg from Tesco or probably any supermarket.

lancashiregirl

Geordie Joe I wish there was a 'like' button for your post about the immune system!

stephen77

Chris_M wrote: »

Some of the staff at my local Tesco having disgusting hygiene habits.

After finishing night-shift at 6am, I usually visit my local Tesco and this is the time that the staff pick the online orders. They wheel a cart around and pick the order. In the fruit/veg aisle, they will lick their fingers to prise open a new plastic bag, pick loose fruit/veg and put it in the bag.....lick their fingers again to prise open the next plastic bag and so on and so on.... :eek:

So beware if you order loose fruit/veg from Tesco or probably any supermarket.

When growing, flies will have landed on them, birds wee on them etc you just do not see it.
Wash the fruit when you get home and it will be fine.

lil.smartie

I used to work for Waitrose and the theory was that clean hands were better than a pair of gloves, you can tell when your hands are dirty not so easy with gloves! We used to regularly check hand washing too with UV dye and black lights.

Kate

shammyjack

I grew up in the 50s and 60s when hygiene standards where much lower but we never " ailed owt ", we had natural resistance to bugs and germs .

This insistence on almost sterility in everything we eat has caused a lot of the everyday ailments that people suffer and made the drug manufacturers billions.

Middy

I have worked in an independent deli for a couple of months. I was given the choice of wearing gloves or washing my hands after handling each product. Though the latter was more time consuming, I found wearing gloves more cumbersome and went for the latter as it was easier to deal with fine items like parma ham.

All of the colleagues I worked with didn't wear gloves because of they found them a nuisance and caused more wastage as had slices of ham fall apart when dealing with gloves on.

Queenriderbrekke

lancashiregirl wrote: »

Geordie Joe I wish there was a 'like' button for your post about the immune system!

There is it's the Thanks button:)

lancashiregirl

Queenriderbrekke wrote: »

There is it's the Thanks button:)

Well yes, but 'thanks' isn't quite what I meant as he wasn't telling me anything I didn't already know, it's just that I couldn't have agreed more:D.