Supermarket juice for kids - 4 months out of date!

MamaMoo_2

There's also been a pretty nasty stomach bug going around lately.
Both of my boys had it. My eldest went to bed, woke up at 2am and recreated a scene from the exorcist. He then wiped his mouth and asked for juice if he could hop in the bath with the ducks while the taps were on.
My youngest had it 48 hours later. 12 hours before his baptism on the 16th! He did one giant projectile-vomit, then continued playing while OH and I desperately tried to clean him.
Both kids were fine, showed no other sign of illness, no fever, and aside from eating very little for the following 3-5 days, had nothing wrong.
In fact, OH and I thought the milk may have been off (both kids vomited about 2-4 hours after a cup of milk). That was until everyone that came into contact with the kids had a vomiting bug 48 hours later! Didn't we feel awful for debilitating around 25 of the guests?! :S

Turns out that from the Wednesday 12th to the following Wednesday, two thirds of my eldest's nursery also had the bug, and a few family members (who hasn't been near my kids) couldn't make the baptism due to the vomiting bug. It was going around for around a fortnight.

Sounds like it may have been this that your child had.

peachyprice

ThumbRemote wrote: »

It's amazing the number of food scientists on here who can tell the drink was perfectly safe to consume, despite not having any clue what state it actually was in.

Hence I reiterate my earlier advice: seek expert legal assistance. Only they will be able to help.

Legal assistance for what exactly when Tesco have done nothing illegal?

satan666wayne

It can't have been the juice that made him ill.

VitaK

It amazing how many believe the juice could not have done this. Maby the juice weren't the only factor, who knows.

stephen77

ThumbRemote wrote: »

It's amazing the number of food scientists on here who can tell the drink was perfectly safe to consume, despite not having any clue what state it actually was in.

Hence I reiterate my earlier advice: seek expert legal assistance. Only they will be able to help.

That's what the food scientist was asking though.

peachyprice

VitaK wrote: »

It amazing how many believe the juice could not have done this. Maby the juice weren't the only factor, who knows.

It's unlikely the juice made the child ill because it was just 4 months past it's BEST BEFORE date, not USE BY date, which is why it's not illegal to sell it.

It's unlikely that if the juice were so off OP wouldn't have noticed the ballooned carton, and if it was ballooned OP surely wouldn't have given it to their child.

stephen77

VitaK wrote: »

It amazing how many believe the juice could not have done this. Maby the juice weren't the only factor, who knows.

as peachy says. The juice being past its BB date is very unlikely to be the cause.
If the container had a small hole in. It can go off with out blowing. however this would have the same issue before it reached its BB date.

we do not even know how long the juice was consumed before being ill.
There is a good chance other foods eaten in the previous 36 hours could have caused the issue

eezer

Two of my kids had a similar vomiting bug last week. No fever or diarrhea, just a fair bit of puke! Anyhow, this thread got me thinking - it's been 17 days since our last trip to Tesco. Should I sue?

Enfieldian

Kids throw up.

Move on.

Azari

ThumbRemote wrote: »

It's amazing the number of food scientists on here who can tell the drink was perfectly safe to consume, despite not having any clue what state it actually was in.

I agree that those saying "oh, it's just a 'Best Before' date so that's unequivocally OK", are wrong.

My point is that the alleged symptoms - i.e. very severe vomiting within 30 seconds of consumption and no other effects are a vanishingly unlikely result of drinking out of date fruit juice.

It is impossible to get food poisoning that quickly which would leave the only possible explanation being toxins derived from some anaerobic process that did not generate any gas (no carton bloating) and did not obviously change the colour, texture, or smell of the product. Again, vanishingly unlikely.

(You could, however, get precisely that result by swallowing certain concentrations of salt water.)

That and the known pattern of a new poster who joins, immediately makes an unlikely anti-Tesco post and then never returns make it almost certain that this is just the same sad Tesco hater playing silly games.