'Funny-looking' Tesco sauce was six months out of date (From South Wales Argus)
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'Funny-looking' Tesco sauce was six months out of date
10:30am Friday 28th September 2012 in Gwent news
A GWENT mum says she bought a jar of seafood sauce, only to find it was half a year out of date.
Rhiannon Shier went to the Tesco Express store in Rogerstone last Saturday, as her 11-year-old daughter Jordan wanted it to make a dip for her crisps.
The 35-year-old returned home only to discover the sauce should have been taken off the shelves six months ago.
“It looked a funny colour in the shop but I thought it needed a stir.
When I opened it, it smelt funny and that’s when I checked the date,” she said.
“There were a lot more jars on the shelf.”
Ms Shier said her partner Julian Padfield, 43, returned with the offensive product and said staff did not seem concerned about the implications of consuming it.
“They weren’t very apologetic.
My daughter could have been quite ill if she had eaten it,” Ms Shier added.
The family reported it to Tesco and Newport’s trading standards department.
A Tesco spokeswoman said: “We take these matters extremely seriously and immediately removed this product from shelves in the Rogerstone Express store, as a precaution.
“We have apologised to the customer.”
She said the store is planning to conduct a thorough investigation on the returned product.
Comments(4)
pipa
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2:09pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Limestonecowboy
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8:05pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Six months - not bad should check my kitchen - just give it a stir thats my motto!
smokintheweed
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1:08am Sun 30 Sep 12
Katie Re-Registered wrote:Starting to become wary of Tesco's?
Oh dear, there was story in Metro the other day about a woman who found part of a rodent in a Tesco sandwhich she'd bought too(!) I'm starting to become very wary of Tesco's.
Think of the number of stores they own and the statistically negligible chance of a large corporation selling something gross in a jar like half a rat.
How many times have those rejects occurred in the news compared to the thousands of different products sold by the millions each year?
Next, Tesco is not the only major retailer in this country (ASDA, Sainsburys, Morrissons etc...). Therefore not all faulty products could be attributed to Tesco.
After that you have to consider that supermarkets buy a lot of their goods from outside companies that likely have quality control issues that the supermarket may not be aware of or in direct control of.
I don't work for any retail establishment but your scaremongering comment gave me cancer.
Katie Re-Registered says...
1:12pm Fri 28 Sep 12