M&S to scrap milk use by dates

YoungBlueEyes

I know it used to be the policy in Tesco that a product past it’s bb date could only sold at a discount. I don’t know if that has changed, but I doubt it has. 

sarah1972

YoungBlueEyes said:

I know it used to be the policy in Tesco that a product past it’s bb date could only sold at a discount. I don’t know if that has changed, but I doubt it has. 

Absolutely, that’s what I have found too. 

Chrysalis

I would expect a BBE date to be earlier than a UBD.

BBE to me should signify when the quality of the product goes down, and for me most products with a UBD lose quality before the UBD.

Of course without BBE and UBD being present at same time on packaging we wont know if they actually are going to use shorter dates, I expect the idea is to make things easier for supplier and shops, so they not throwing away outdated stock.

Personally I think this is ultimately a bad thing.

Ultimately I think they wouldnt be doing this if there was no benefit to the retailer.

Chrysalis

sarah1972 said:

Finally some more common sense by the supermarkets 👍👍

Best before on milk is a great idea. I regularly use milk past its date. 

It’s great that fruit & veg rarely have dates anymore too. 

Here’s to less waste and more ‘no dates on food’

Yeah it was great fun when I used to get delivered mouldy fruit that wasnt edible.

I now only buy it fresh directly.

The one time I had out of date milk my doctor diagnosed me with food poisoning. Never again thank you.

sarah1972

Chrysalis said:

sarah1972 said:

Finally some more common sense by the supermarkets 👍👍

Best before on milk is a great idea. I regularly use milk past its date. 

It’s great that fruit & veg rarely have dates anymore too. 

Here’s to less waste and more ‘no dates on food’

Yeah it was great fun when I used to get delivered mouldy fruit that wasnt edible.

I now only buy it fresh directly.

The one time I had out of date milk my doctor diagnosed me with food poisoning. Never again thank you.

I assume you don’t buy fruit & veg in a supermarket when you say you only buy fresh now, knowing that most isn’t fresh at all. I agree though about buying it fresh from farm shops which I do sometimes but not regularly as it doesn’t last long before going soft because it actually is fresh.

That’s poor show, delivering it mouldy though, I assume they refunded. 

We never had such a thing as out of date milk years ago, you smelt it. Sorry you got food poisoning, I’ve only ever had that from milk that hadn’t been correctly stored.

Chrysalis

Yep not from supermarkets, sorry I didnt make that clear.

sevenhills

pumpkin89 said:

Every major UK supermarket has a policy of not selling food beyond its best before date.  This is primarily because selling food beyond its use by date is a serious criminal offence and, as we all know, a lot of the population doesn't really understand the difference.  It's just too big a risk for them to take so it's easier to adhere strictly to all forms of date coding.

I have just binned six tomatoes that I bought within the past week. The packaging was open and had a code number on, they were not in my fridge.

Its hot at the moment, but never had that before with tomatoes. I do sometimes keep them in the fridge.