ASDA sell you out of date food

Asda have been fines £80,000 after two outlets in south Wales were found to be selling out-of-date food. Magistrates in Abergavenny fined Asda £78,750 and ordered it to pay £10,000 costs after it admitted 59 offences. Asda said staff have since been disciplined and teams retrained.

Trading standards officers found a pack of lamb chops that was 31 days past its use-by date, being sold in its Cwmbran store.

They also found food past its use-by-date on sale at the Duffryn store near Newport.

Torfaen Council said that of the other 58 items of food that should not have been on sale:
- 38 were one day past their use-by date
- 17 were two to five days past their use-by date
- 3 items were seven days past.

Asda said, "We're obviously disappointed that at a local level two stores did not properly implement our very thorough date code checking system. Although the products highlighted only represent 0.1% of all the products on sale in those stores, they should have been spotted and taken off sale".