I negozi di Dunnes hanno multato per oltre € 30k per la vendita di una formula per bambini che era di nove anni obsole
https://www.thejournal.ie/dunnes-stores-fined-expired-baby-formula-five-week-old-hospitalised-6648274-Mar2025/
di CheerilyTerrified
8 commenti
Freak occurance.
So it was actually preadolescent formula
Happy the baby ended up ok in the end, hopefully they make some changes to check the dates of products after this, 9 years out-of-date is crazy but I’ve picked up some of their Dunnes branded partially cooked rolls with mold on them.
30k seems like a slap on the wrist for child endangerment. They should be paying at least 10x that.
What I don’t understand is, the tins from 9 years ago would surley look different to now. How could one random tin from nearly 10 years ago end up on a shelf with new tins and no one copped it? When I worked in shops that sold formula the dates had to be checked regularly.
Nine years is absolutely insane.
I’m not blaming the parents in anyway at all, but does everyone not check the date on items they purchase? I check every item that goes into the trolly.. hell I will check the snickers i pick up when I’m fueling the car, at this stage it’s an ingrained habit, and every week I find stuff out of date or going out the day I buy.
So the last time this came up, the 9 years thing seemed like a total anomaly.
If you’ve ever worked in a supermarket you’d know that it’s basically unheard of for items on a shelf to go unseen for six months, never mind 9 years. Stock gets cleared out and moved around, shelves get moved, shop space gets redesigned. Stuff a few weeks out of date can happen. *9 years* makes zero sense.
And baby formula has a very high turnover, it’s hard to keep the stuff on the shelves. Especially during covid and previous years there were shortages of milk.
So everything here points to something extraordinary happening.
The most likely culprits here are:
1. Someone found the formula down the back of a press in their house, brought it to Dunnes claiming they’d bought the wrong one or it was expired or something, and it ended up back on the shelf.
2. Someone in Dunnes found it under or behind a unit either on the shop floor or warehouse and it ended up back on the shelf.
Number 2 seems less likely than number 1.
30k seems pretty high, but they did fuck up badly by failing to report (and clearly failing to investigate) this.