Tesco recalls chicken product unsafe to eat due to use-by date error

Some batches of the supermarket’s Chicken Tsukune Skewers person been mislabelled with a usage by day of 23/12/2024 alternatively of 10/12/2024, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) said.

As a result, Tesco is recalling each packages of the enactment nutrient with the December 23 expiry date.

The callback announcement states: “An hold of the Use by Date could airs a hazard to health if the merchandise is kept past the close support beingness of the product.”

Customers who person bought immoderate of the skewers are advised to instrumentality them to immoderate Tesco store for a afloat refund – and nary receipt is required.

Eating out-of-date chickenhearted carries galore wellness risks and the FSA advises radical to “never devour nutrient aft the use-by date, adjacent if it looks and smells ok, arsenic it could marque you precise ill”.

“You tin devour nutrient until midnight connected the use-by day shown connected a product, but not after, unless the nutrient has been cooked oregon frozen,” its website adds.

The ‘sniff test’ – recommended to spot if nutrient with a best-before day tin beryllium eaten – is not suitable for nutrient products with a use-by date.