[Newsbot]

Title: Major grocers sell canned fish years past shelf life
Category: Health
Posted By: martin14
Date: 2013-02-25 04:01:24
Canadian

[martin14]

$1:

We are very disappointed with your findings and are taking this issue very seriously,� said Safeway public affairs manager Betty Kellsey.
Go Public found outdated cans of fish and seafood in five Vancouver area grocery chain stores.Go Public found outdated cans of fish and seafood in five Vancouver area grocery chain stores. (CBC)

One Safeway in Coquitlam, B.C., had canned shrimp from Indonesia, with a shelf life that ended in August 2010.

�Our stores conduct rotating weekly date checks,� wrote Kellsey. �Products that are nearing the best before dates are pulled from the shelf and discarded

Weekly checks done by the blind employees, no doubt.


Stores rotate stock.

The better / newer / fresher stuff is always in the back of the shelf.

Just reach in and rummage around.


And check EVERYTHING.

[ShepherdsDog]

So Martin.....been to the races....I mean Ikea.. for meatballs lately?

[martin14]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

So Martin.....been to the races....I mean Ikea.. for meatballs lately?

Not for years, Ikea is too expensive for me.
I have seen the story, though.

I spent years in Slovkia basically not eating beef, because the
quality was lower than the toilet.. they had no idea about cows,
conquered lands and all that.

Pork and chicken was fine, usually better than in the West,
no factory farms.

Meat in both Spain and Italy was too expensive, and I don't even
miss not eating it.. except last year.


Restaurants every Wednesday for something meaty, steaks on the BBQ
every Sunday, and fuck the weather.


However, a story like this only shows that the stores in Canada have no morality left,
pretty much like everything else.

[ShepherdsDog]

For me it's not so much eating horse that would bother me.....it's being screwed over in the pricing that is irksome.....soylent green is horses

[raydan]

Too expensive for stores to take them off the shelves, too expensive to check dates.

Not too hard for the consumer to check this when you shop, I do it all the time. For some products I'll even try to find the one with the latest expiry date.

[martin14]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

For me it's not so much eating horse that would bother me.....it's being screwed over in the pricing that is irksome.....soylent green is horses

Same.

[martin14]

raydan raydan:

Too expensive for stores to take them off the shelves, too expensive to check dates.

And yet they say they are out checking it every week.
Just another pack of lies.

$1:

Not too hard for the consumer to check this when you shop, I do it all the time. For some products I'll even try to find the one with the latest expiry date.

I worked too hard for my money, I check everything.

[ShepherdsDog]

The Northern Store was infamous for pulling this sort of shit on meat. They'd keep placing one label over the other. Sometimes the stuff was green and they were trying to sell it.

[xerxes]

$1:

However, a story like this only shows that the stores in Canada have no morality left,
pretty much like everything else.

Honestly, I would expand this to "Capitalism has no morality left." It's all about making money. If food producers could get away with it, they'd sell us dogshit and call it caviar.

Another thing thing to think about as well: when you look at the Best before date, one would assume that it was relatively fresh whatever it is you're buying. Don't be so sure. I work in food packaging and just the other day we were packaging organic raspberries that were from 2008. Of course, they were still good and passed all our QC checks. But still, if you're $7-8 for a pound of something, you'd expect it to have at least been picked in this decade, no?

[Jonny_C]

In another thread I posted about the mis-labelling of fish (frozen or fresh). In some places, up to 50% of fish is labelled incorrectly as to species. That's another concern.

Caveat emptor.

[Jughead]

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She checked the bottom of the can and found it had a “best before” date of July 2011 — a year and a half before she bought it.

I always check the date when purchasing canned goods. It only makes sense. If not, at least check the date before consuming the product.

[Canadian_Mind]

I had a bad experiance as a kid. mom had just bought milk. i poured myself a glass and drank it. it was sour, but she didn't believe me, so she forced me to drink the shit. never checked the before date label herself (it had expired a week prior).

Since then I ALWAYS check the labels no matter how reputable the store. And even if not past the best before date, if it smells/tastes funny, I don't drink it.

[Public_Domain]

[herbie]

They have to compete with the food at the Dollar Stores.