{"id":415989,"date":"2026-02-09T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/415989\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:55:13","slug":"major-supermarket-fined-500000-for-selling-2-week-out-of-date-food-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/415989\/","title":{"rendered":"Major supermarket fined \u00a3500,000 for selling 2-week out-of-date food | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major UK supermarket<\/a> has been fined over \u00a3500,000 for selling out-of-date food in one of its stores. Tubs of hummus, which were 16 days past their expiry date, were among 41 items sold despite being out of date.<\/p>\n

Asda<\/a> was ordered to pay \u00a3507,767 after pleading guilty to five offences under the Food Safety Act on Thursday, January 29. Trading Standards found a number of out-of-date food items were being sold in the store on Old Mill Lane, Barnsley<\/a>, including pizzas and curries. Officials warned the items “could have put the public’s health at risk”.<\/p>\n

It is illegal for shops to sell food that has passed its expiry date. However, food can legally be sold past its “best-before” date provided it is still of good quality.<\/p>\n

A Barnsley Trading Standards spokesperson said: “While improvements have been made since these offences, including a new checking system, retraining and increased auditing in the store, the sizeable \u00a3100,000 fine per offence sends a clear message that non-compliance never pays.”<\/p>\n

Barnsley Council\u2019s public health spokesperson Cllr Wendy Cain added: “We\u2019re committed to keeping our communities safe, a responsibility we take very seriously.<\/p>\n

“We expect businesses of all sizes to only sell safe\u00a0food, and this significant result sends a clear message that we will always put people\u2019s\u00a0health\u00a0and safety first, taking action where businesses fail to comply with legislation or respond to warnings.”<\/p>\n

An Asda spokesperson said: “We are disappointed that some\u00a0out-of-date products were found on sale at our Barnsley store in 2024.\u00a0 This fell short of the standards our customers rightly expect and that we hold ourselves to.<\/p>\n

“In the time since these products were found, we have introduced a new date code checking process in every Asda store to ensure the freshest products are always available for customers to buy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major UK supermarket has been fined over \u00a3500,000 for selling out-of-date food in one of its stores.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[724,39119,153882,84,153883,43746,153881,59,719,2386,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-415989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-asda","tag-barnsley","tag-barnsley-trading-standards","tag-business","tag-expiry-date-compliance","tag-food-section","tag-food-safety-act","tag-gb","tag-supermarkets","tag-trading-standards","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415989","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=415989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}