Supermarket juice for kids - 4 months out of date!

stephen77

How do you know the manufacturer has not tested the product well beyond its best before date?
Most companies will build in a safety margin especially with a long life BB.

Even on short shelf life products you will test beyond its use by date.

As i have said earlier its will be very difficult now to prove what happend as the juice is not in the sterlised container.

Food poisoning can take a while to develop and for you to be ill. So could be a whole host of products consumed that may have caused it.

Or some times babies and adults just get ill from non-food as well.

I personally do not feel the juice going out its BB date was the cause. This does not mean the juice was not the cause. Just the date is not the issue.

Money-Saving-King

ThumbRemote wrote: »

At no point have I said that it definately was the juice.

To be honest you haven't really made that clear to the op in this post.

ThumbRemote wrote: »

1. Take a photo of the out of date items in the store. This will be evidence later.
2. Make a note of your financial losses, eg cost of the holiday.
3. Consult a solicitor. This is a classic personal injury claim, and they will offer the expert advice required. You should be able to claim for both the financial losses and the illness itself.
4. Ignore the posters who will turn up on here claiming it can't have been the juice that made him ill.

Your basic message was, go to a solicitor, this is a classic injury claim, ignore anyone telling it couldn't have been the juice. I think the op would have thought you were pretty certain it was the juice from that!

p00hsticks

stephen77 wrote: »

As i have said earlier its will be very difficult now to prove what happend as the juice is not in the sterlised container.

The OP said that the supermarket still had the product on sale with the same BBE date - perhaps they should have taken the opportunity to buy another pack to have tested by the Food Standards Authority....

sharnad

So you bought juice that wasn't out of date. your some ate something that may have made him sick. Hopefully he's better now get over it

fluffnutter

ThumbRemote wrote: »

1. Take a photo of the out of date items in the store. This will be evidence later.
2. Make a note of your financial losses, eg cost of the holiday.
3. Consult a solicitor. This is a classic personal injury claim, and they will offer the expert advice required. You should be able to claim for both the financial losses and the illness itself.

Precisely why this country is in the litigious mess it's in, why insurance premiums are so high and not one parent seems able to look after its own kid properly.

ThumbRemote

fluffnutter wrote: »

Precisely why this country is in the litigious mess it's in, why insurance premiums are so high and not one parent seems able to look after its own kid properly.

I agree, if supermarkets and other retailers took proper care over what they sold then things would be much better.

stephen77

p00hsticks wrote: »

The OP said that the supermarket still had the product on sale with the same BBE date - perhaps they should have taken the opportunity to buy another pack to have tested by the Food Standards Authority....

true.

THis store must have slow stock rotation if the same pack still on shelf a week later.

If it was the juice then hopefully a lot of other people were ill so a trend would be seen with ill people going to the doctors.

When I say hopefully ill - I mean from forming a trend rather than wanting people to be ill.

stephen77

ThumbRemote wrote: »

I agree, if supermarkets and other retailers took proper care over what they sold then things would be much better.

We have no evidence to suggest in this case the supermarket sold anything that was not safe.

You have sites like approved food.com will be selling products beyond there shelf life like juice.
So if it was a problem food this would not be happening.

Money-Saving-King

ThumbRemote wrote: »

I agree, if supermarkets and other retailers took proper care over what they sold then things would be much better.

Oh so are you suggesting finally it was the orange juice?

ThumbRemote wrote: »

At no point have I said that it definately was the juice.

Yes or no? You can't have it both ways!

ThumbRemote

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

Oh so are you suggesting finally it was the orange juice?

Yes or no? You can't have it both ways!

What are you on about? Don't you agree the world would be a better place, if only slightly, if supermarkets took proper care over what they sold?