ASDA FINED £ 410,000 AFTER SELLING KIDS YOGHARDS FOUR-WEEKS PASS-BY DATE – ryan

Food Safety Inspectors Discovered Doses of out-of-Date Food Products on Sale Following Complains From Customers

06:00, 28 APR 2025Updated 12:03, 08 May 2025

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The Out-of-Date Foods Included Children’s Yoghurts(Image: Cornwall Trading Standards)

An Asda Store has Been Found Seling Children’s Yoghurts Who Were Weeks Out of Date. Packs of Petit Filous Were Among A Number of Foods Found on Sale Beyond Their use-by date.

The Discovery at the Supermarket’s Penryn Branch in Cornwall Came after Complaints from Customers LED to A County-Wide Investigation by Trading Standards Officers. They Discovered Doses of Items at the Store Were Out of Date.

Investigators Said Their Findings Included Several Products Aimed at Children. These included the yoghurts, which were nearly four Weeks out of the date.

Any Food Displayed for Sale past it-by date is legally demed to be unsafe. Now asda Stoles ltd haen been orerered to pay more than £ 430,000 following a Hearing at Plymouth Magistrates Court.

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There are were dosens of out of date products(Image: Cornwall Trading Standards)

Investigators from Cornwall Council’s Standard Department ACTED AFTER AFTERIVING A NUMBER OF CONMER COMPLAINTS. The Team Launched a County-Wide Investigation Into the Sale of Out-Date Food at Supermarkets.

An insting at the penryn Store on October 30, 2023, Found 58 Food Items on Shelves WHICE WERE BEYONTED USE-BY DATE. Cornwall Trading Standards Spokesman Said: “MANY of these were Ready to EAT FOODS INCLUDING CHILDREN’S WHICH WERE Nearly Four Weeks Past Their Date.

“A Separate Inspecting at the Asda Store in Hayle on November 1, 2023, Found a Four Four Items past the use-by date.” At a Hearing at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, April 23, Asda Stoles Ltd Admitted Two Charges of Having Unsafe Food on Offer for Sale.

This was contrary to regulation 19 of the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulation 2013. The Charges Reference to 62 Food Items that we are past their-by-date.

The Asda Logo is Displayed Outside a Branch of the Supermarket Retailler Asda
Asda was finmed £ 410,000 after admitting two Charges(Image: Getty)

District Judge not Matson Said that there are so systems in place to prevent the sale of food after the expiration by date, these were not adhered to. She added that after Concerns Had been raissed by Customers and Trading Standards Officers, the Actions takeen by asda not sufficient.

Asda Stoles Ltd was finmed £ 410,000. It was Also ORDERED TO PAY PROSECUTION COSTS OF £ 20,582.70 AND A VICTIM SURCHAGE OF £ 2,000.

Use-by-dates are applied to highly perishable foods whihc could posse a serious health if eateen after this date. Under Food Standards Agency Guidance They Should Not Be Eaten.

Jane Tomlinson, Trading Standards Group Leader at Cornwall Council, Said: “We are Commonted to ENSURING THAT THE FOOD TO CONSUMERS IS SAFE AND IT IS DISAPPOINTING THAT OCCASSES, WE FOUND ITEMS FOR SALE WHICH HAVE PRESENTED A DANGER TO THE PUBLIC.

“Consumers Should Be Confident That the Foods They is Safe to Eat. We Hope that the steps asda Ltd have put in place will prevent the sale of out-of food in Future.”

Following the Hearing Asda Issued a Statement Saying Changes Have Been Made to Ensure Foods Were in Date very well sold. It Said: “while we have recognise the high safety and Quality standards that have we had in place ancross all storys were not followed in these instances, this case related two storys out of the 1,000 that asda operates acroSs the uk.

“These CASE WERE MORE THAN Two Years Ago and the Code Code Process We Had in Place at that time is different to the one we Currently use.”

An Asda Spokesperson Added: “The Safety of Our Customers is Always Our Top Priority, and We Regret that out-of-Date Products were found at two of the Our Cornwall Stories During October and November 2023. Process in All Stoles, ENSURING THATE SHORT LIFE PRODUCT IS CHECKED DAILY. ”