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Out of date food in UK supermarkets
Audrey Brown, BBC News reporter, worked undercover at two supermarkets. She applied for positions at Sainsbury’s, Oxford, and later Tesco in Woodford Green, North London. Last year she was contacted by several supermarket employees. They told her they had serious concerns about the food they were being asked to sell. After working undercover at both stores for a total of four months, she discovered that customers were often deceived about the freshness and quality of the food they were buying. Food past its sell-by date on the fresh food counters at both supermarkets was being sold regularly. The counter staff treated the meat and fish they were selling with indifference and mostly they did not even know what the sell-by date was, since they had been changing it so many times. In this way supermarkets try to save money.
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This is so nasty! I have seen programs in which experts investigate kitchens in restaurants. I know that food in many restaurants is not fresh and past the sell-by-date. But now I read that it happens at supermarkets too! Only to save money. Don’t they care about people’s health? That’s how people get infected by bacteria and get sick or even worse, might die. As for the fresh food, I think health experts should control supermarkets more often. And if they get caught selling food which is past the sell-by-date, they should receive a high fine. And if they get caught again: just close the store! The idea of eating bad food makes me feel sick already. Are supermarkets in Holland the same????
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This is making me sick. Whom to trust nowadays? It seems that everything is just about earning money. In Holland there is a special organisation the ''keuringsdienst van waren''. This organisation is checking if the food stores, shops, restaurants and bars are following the foodregulations.
The answer to this problem is not more regulations but more check ups. I hope there is a similar kind of organisation in the UK.
It's really bad idea that we don't know how fresh the food is that we buy in the supermarket! By the way (from out of own experience) you can get really ill, by eating fish or see-products that aren't fresh. My advise is don't eat / consume them everywhere, but only at restaurants or places where you do know that everything is fresh. For as far supermarkets are concerned, be carefull and always check the date of expiration of the freshness.
Does fresh food have a sell-by-date? I mean isn't the rule as soon as it walks off by itself it's gone over? If you really want to be sure you get fresh food, you have to grow it yourself. Still it is important that supermarkets are checked regularly by the government or some other kind of independent agency.
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