Aldi horse meat contaminated products - why no refund yet?

terra_ferma

pmduk wrote: »

Tesco ought to be using their clubcard records to refund anyone who has bought this product in the recent past. Horsemeat must be expensive, Tesco hiked the price of their value beefburgers 25% shortly before the issue appeared.

I hope they don't.... looking at a thread being active right now on the consumer rights forum, and MSE news, they'd probably end up refunding the money to whoever hacked into the clubcard accounts and stole a lot of money...

Dave_C_2

EllenorR wrote: »

Thank you Olive Oyl - I'm surprised they have not actually put this on their own website under recalls or something.

However, I see it only relates to the following two specific products:
Today's Special Frozen Beef Lasagne
Today's Special Frozen Spaghetti Bolognese

What about the other products they have removed from sale 'for precautionary measures'?
There were at least 3 different ranges of frozen burger they have removed from sale ... and perhaps some other items I don't know about.

The 3 products that have already been withdrawn from sale that I know about are:

Oakhurst 100% beefburgers (8 pack)
Oakhurst beefburgers (16 pack)
Specially Selected Aberdeen Angus quarterpounders

This thread is comparing Tesco burgers - which Tesco admit do contain horse meat with Aldi burgers which allegedly have been withdrawn from sale as a precautionary measure. Hardly the same thing.
I say "allegedly" because we bought some Aberdeen Angus Specially Selected burgers in our local Aldi on Friday.

Surely "as a precuationary measure" means exactly that, not an admission that they contain horsemeat.

Some Aldi Burgers in Ireland did contain horsemeat and Burger King are next on the list. BBC news here.

Dave

sillygoose

As Dave says above, I suspect many of the products have been withdrawn not because they contain horse but to appear proactive and no one is going to buy any of it at present so they may as well dump it.

Lidl has been going mad making sure everything is covered in labels to make sure customers know its UK farm meat on their products.

Personally I think the presence of some horse meat is the very least of our worries. The foreign factories that the contaminated meat came from are proven dishonest and unregulated for this to happen. So do you think they will have any reservations about putting ANY old rubbish in the mincer?

If (and I would bet money on it) they have been including some of the forbidden bits, brain, skull, eyes, trigeminal ganglia, spinal cord, vertebral column,tonsils and distal ileum of the small intestine - then there is a BSE disease timebomb ticking amongst us. Some of us and our children will have been destined to a grim future by these factories profiteering. It could be in the thousands!

nomoneytoday

EllenorR wrote: »

What would you call the presence of an unwanted and unlisted material in a product sold as 100% beefburger?

100% beefburger means it's allowed other stuff.
100% Hamburger means it's 100% beef.

(AFAIK)