Asda has been fined \u00a3640,000 for selling out-of-date food at two of its stores in Wales.<\/p>\n
Trading Standards officers found 115 items, including some that were more than two weeks out of date, at Asda\u2019s Leckwith and Pentwyn stores in Cardiff.<\/p>\n
Asda faced four charges relating to the sale of out-of-date food items after food safety officers visited the stores on four occasions in 2024.<\/p>\n
A visit to the Leckwith store on January 17 of that year found 36 out of date items, including five tubs of spicy mayo dip seven days out of date.<\/p>\n
A visit to the Pentwyn store in the Cardiff Gate retail park on March 25 found 25 outdated items, while another visit to the store a month later found 48 items, including some that were 12 days out of date.<\/p>\n
A second visit to the Leckwith store on May 8 found a further six out of date items.<\/p>\n
Asda was given a fine of \u00a3640,000 and ordered to pay \u00a315,115 in costs and a \u00a32,000 surcharge.<\/p>\n
Asda said the prosecution related to food safety breaches that took place last year, when a different date code checking process was in use.<\/p>\n
An updated process that had been in place since November 24 involved daily manual checks on all short-life products and twice-weekly checks on every long-life product.<\/p>\n
An Asda spokesman said: \u201cWe regret that out-of-date food was found on sale at two of our Cardiff stores last year and accept that our usual high standards were not upheld.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince then, we have introduced a new date code checking process across all our stores, whereby every short-life product is checked daily so that customers can always buy the freshest products.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kerry Nicol, external affairs manager at the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, said: \u201cSupermarkets have a legal and moral responsibility to ensure that food on their shelves is safe and within its use by date.<\/p>\n
\u201cSelling food past its use by date not only breaches consumer protection laws but also risks public health and undermines trust.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrading Standards teams across the country play a vital role in monitoring compliance and taking action where necessary.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe urge all retailers to prioritise robust stock management and quality assurance processes to ensure consumers are protected and confidence in the food supply chain is maintained.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asda has been fined \u00a3640,000 for selling out-of-date food at two of its stores in Wales. Trading Standards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[724,84,2387,2362,59,2386,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-asda","tag-business","tag-cardiff-gate","tag-food-safety","tag-gb","tag-trading-standards","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}