Does your local ASDA do this ?

Edwardia

On Tuesday night was in ASDA and noticed that the packs of fish that had been reduced were sitting on the edge of the refrigeration cabinet, on top of the air outlets.

When the refrigeration unit chills the cabinet down it sucks the room temperature air away from the products and into the store and with the motor running as well that air can get quite warm.

This is ideal temperature for bacteria to breed and could give the sick, elderly, children and people with dodgy stomachs, food poisoning.

There are food regs which say that if a refrigerated product is out of a refrigerator for more than 20 mins it can't be sold. If this stuff is heading for the bin, why not just bin it, instead of leaving it there. If it should be moved to a reduced fridge, move it.

i've complained and explained why this is dangerous and that I got food poisoning fom eating their reduced sausages but still they do it.

Is it just my local store or do other ASDA branches do this too ?

Never seen this done elsewhere ie Sainsbury's, Lidl, Aldi, Tesco, Waitrose, Morrisons or Iceland, myself. Have you ?

globalds

take a photo and email it to head office ..

littlestar1981

come to think of it, my local Asda does it with fresh cream cakes x

Chris25

I saw it in tesco once - I think it was reduced, ready-prepared potatoes dauphinoise. They had come from the chiller cabinets & they'd been put out with the reduced veg in the ordinary aisles.
I told a member of staff & they removed them all - but, I don't know what they did with them or for how long they'd been siiting there.

Nada666

Co-op are bad for this, too.

Edwardia

globalds wrote: »

take a photo and email it to head office ..

Good idea globalds I will ty and remember to do that next time.

Chris25 I can see why staff might put Dauphinoise in with the veg, as they might not realise they have fresh ingredients in with the spuds. Think the chance of getting food poisoning from a very small quantity of sauce, cream or butter is low.

littlestar1981 again I think that's lack of product knowledge for the staff, not realising that the cream in fresh cream cakes can go off pretty quickly.

I'm actually surprised though to see other supermarkets do this too. It's really not good food hygiene practice.

As an ex chef I'd seriously recommend not picking up chicken, fish, fresh dairy cream cakes and meat, burgers or sausages from chiller edges unless you see the store asst doing it and nab the pack. Otherwise you have no idea how long it has been sitting there and allowing dormant bacteria to come to life and grow The amount of bacteria in the pack will double every 20 mins at the right temperature