Tesco selling food past its used by date by over 10 days

Pollycat

Art_Deco wrote: »

Thanks for this, I get confused with this so if the juice said best before they could have still sold it in the reduced section but if it said use by they cant? Edited just read it again! nothing either best before or use by can be past the date is that right.?

There's a big difference between 'use by' and 'best before'.

Generally tins have 'best before', and stuff like tea, coffee, biscuits, stock cubes, pickles and even cheese.

'Use by' dates tend to be on raw meats, fish, milk and cream. As well as fresh juices. So perishable foods.

I've had canned soup (and lots of other stuff) waaaay past the 'best before' date.
'best before' just means it might not taste quite as good as when it was first packaged.

There are shops that sell items past their 'best before' date - there's a shop local to me that does that but they always label it as such. Not sure if that's the law or not.
A can of tomato soup marked 'BB end Jan 2017' is unlikely to have gone off as soon as the calendar rolled over to 1st Feb.

silverwhistle

Silvertabby wrote: »

Last time I was in Tesco I noticed that a jar of sauce had a 'blown' lid. Trying to be helpful, I showed it to a nearby shelf-stacker. She just looked at me as if I was stupid, and put it back on the shelf.

Next time take the lid off and then put it back on the shelf!

I've been in Tescos around half a dozen times in the last 3+ years after I was caught yet again by one of their misleading shelf stickers when I returned to the UK.

"Still at it", I thought, and have avoided them ever since.

RoonilWazlib_2

Pollycat wrote: »

A can of tomato soup marked 'BB end Jan 2017' is unlikely to have gone off as soon as the calendar rolled over to 1st Feb.

Quite.


I remember as a young kid asking my mum if the bread was dated eg 14th February, how did the bread know when the 15th had started in order to start going bad.


thinking back on it, I'm sure I didn't get an answer!

Art_Deco

Pollycat wrote: »

There's a big difference between 'use by' and 'best before'.

Generally tins have 'best before', and stuff like tea, coffee, biscuits, stock cubes, pickles and even cheese.

'Use by' dates tend to be on raw meats, fish, milk and cream. As well as fresh juices. So perishable foods.

I've had canned soup (and lots of other stuff) waaaay past the 'best before' date.
'best before' just means it might not taste quite as good as when it was first packaged.

There are shops that sell items past their 'best before' date - there's a shop local to me that does that but they always label it as such. Not sure if that's the law or not.
A can of tomato soup marked 'BB end Jan 2017' is unlikely to have gone off as soon as the calendar rolled over to 1st Feb.

Thats what confused me if theres a law or not a law? i go to a lovely shop that sells out of date food ive never had any ill effects,but with the OP saying the juice wasnt in the reduced section it sounded like if it was then that would have been ok IYKWIM:

Pollycat

RoonilWazlib wrote: »

Quite.


I remember as a young kid asking my mum if the bread was dated eg 14th February, how did the bread know when the 15th had started in order to start going bad.


thinking back on it, I'm sure I didn't get an answer!

When I was a young kid, I don't think bread had a date on it.

In fact, I can't remember most of the stuff we ate having a date on it (but I might be wrong).
Vegetables even had mud on them. :eek:

However did we manage not to poison ourselves?

Pollycat

Art_Deco wrote: »

Thats what confused me if theres a law or not a law? i go to a lovely shop that sells out of date food ive never had any ill effects,but with the OP saying the juice wasnt in the reduced section it sounded like if it was then that would have been ok IYKWIM:

It would only have been OK in the reduced section if the 'use by' date hadn't passed.

So, today.
'Use by' date on a carton of milk 14th February 2017. OK to sell (even at full price).
'Use by' date on a carton of milk 13th February 2017. NOT OK to sell (at any price).

So it depends what your lovely shop is selling.
'Use by' or 'Best before'?

As I said it's OK to sell items that have a 'best before' date that has passed.
I just don't know if there is a law that says they have to point this out to the potential customer. I'd guess not.

Selling juice (or milk or cream or fish or meat) that has passed its 'use by' date is most definitely not OK - regardless of whether it is full price or reduced to 1p.

I think the OP confused the issue when she mentioned the juice wasn't in the reduced section.
The bottom line is that it should not have been on sale at all.

Squire_Fulwood

Pollycat wrote: »

When I was a young kid, I don't think bread had a date on it.

In fact, I can't remember most of the stuff we ate having a date on it (but I might be wrong).
Vegetables even had mud on them. :eek:

However did we manage not to poison ourselves?

I love to boast.

When I was a kid bread was delivered by horse and cart as was the milk. The bread man just handed you the loaf and since it went hard in a day he had to come every day.

In the summer if you were at the end of the milk round you only ever got milk that was slightly off. Should have had a 'sell by hour' stamp on it.

Pollycat

Squire_Fulwood wrote: »

I love to boast.

It's not boasting, it's reminiscing.

lincroft1710

Pollycat wrote: »

When I was a young kid, I don't think bread had a date on it.

When I was a young kid, bread wasn't wrapped, so nowhere to put a date

Nick_C

Squire_Fulwood wrote: »

When I was a kid bread was delivered by horse and cart as was the milk.

In Liverpool in the 1960s, our milk was delivered by Mr Wynn using a horse and cart. The milk was fresh, and the chickens couldn't have been fresher. He would kill them on the back of the cart, and bring them to the door in a brown paper sack. They carried on moving for about an hour afterwards. My mum used to pluck them, clean them out, and pull the tendons. (She was "just a housewife", so had time to do this). I used to get the head and neck to play with. You could pull the tendons in the neck and make the eyes and the beak open and close. Simple pleasures!

We bought our bread from the local shop though, which had a cat that liked to sit on the bacon slicer.

And we took old newspapers to the chippy for a free portion of chips with batter bits.