Food: Shrimp in Lidl's a year old

As a consequence of the Extra Magazine's revelations of the massive problems with the old food in the country's supermarkets, has Fødevarekontrollen launched a similar nationwide inspection campaign.

Now it is the turn then come to Lidl in Haslev in southern Zealand, where Fødevarekontrollen the other day and found the sliced cheese that was too old a month ago.

There was, among other things, found the tiger prawns, which was for the old 15. June 2019, but luckily they were frozen, so people are hardly been sick.

the Store on the Grønlandsgade got a warning notice, for the 'food must not be placed on the market under the circumstances of the case, which is suitable to mislead the consumer with regard to shelf life,' writes Fødevarekontrollen.

'We are very sorry, there has been found products with exceeded best before date in that store,' says Lidls procurement manager Rasmus Pape.

'We have reviewed the product mix and, of course, discarded the products concerned, as soon as we became aware of the problem. We have also reviewed all of our processes in relation to the review of the durability of the goods in the store. All of our employees, we have chosen again to inform about the importance in every day to keep an eye on datomærkningerne,' he promises.

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