Beware Of Fresh Milk at Lemar/Tempo

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
21/11/2009 22:06

Four days running I have had to get fresh milk as I have a young child staying with me, the date on the plastic bottle was in date but the milk was off all 4 of them, he wont drink the carton long life, I can maybe understand one bottle being off but every one bought on different days, so please if you are buying for a baby or young child please smell if first before giving it to them, we are now desperate, got some from Tempo this afternoon and guess what that was off and the date was for the 25th November dreadful

Sheila

darrener2


Joined: 30/12/2008
Posts: 187

Message Posted:
21/11/2009 22:19

Just a thought, I bought a plastic bottle of milk only to find when I got it home and put my glasses on that it was ayran.



I have never, ever made this mistake before, and it is usually easy to tell them apart as they are generally in different coloured/shaped bottles, but recently this manufacturer has started doing identical blue packaging and the only difference was the wording.



I am not suggesting for a minute that you don't know the difference, but this one fooled me.

BillyB


Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 436

Message Posted:
21/11/2009 22:20

Back to breast feeding then.

Smity



Joined: 14/09/2009
Posts: 826

Message Posted:
21/11/2009 22:24

Msg2

Should have gone to specsavers

yorkie58


Joined: 16/09/2008
Posts: 245

Message Posted:
21/11/2009 22:26

Smithy - I do hope you took these back to the stores even if only to highlight AGAIN, as this problem has popped up quite a few times now. When I find a bad bottle I make sure that the next bottle I buy has a different packaged date. (mot use by date)

darrener2


Joined: 30/12/2008
Posts: 187

Message Posted:
21/11/2009 22:27

Smity

"Should have gone to specsavers"



Certainly should, but this way, life is full of surprises. lol

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
21/11/2009 22:30

Smithy this is getting serious now. Thanks to the people on here I check all the dates. Had 2 bottles fresh milk for my grandson this week. Had to be taken back.Darrener I have made the same mistake. Not nice in my earl grey xxxx

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
22/11/2009 10:00

msg 3,

Bitty!

http://www.videovat.com/videos/872/little-britain-breast-feeding.aspx

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
22/11/2009 10:19

Hi Smity

Hope your both well,

I checked every date and they had 3/4 days to go but they were all off, but my daughter in law just threw them down the sink before I could return them.

have to think before buying next time

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
22/11/2009 10:27

I just managed not to chunder - but it made the cat spew!

mags111



Joined: 17/08/2008
Posts: 251

Message Posted:
22/11/2009 10:27

We have had the same problem with milk thats gone off with what we assumed was fresh milk. We now buy our milk in the south and freeze it. Its much nicer.

fiendishpaul


Joined: 18/05/2008
Posts: 1720

Message Posted:
22/11/2009 10:48

We always buy our milk from the South...I can't stand the long life stuff !!!

laptagal


Joined: 28/05/2008
Posts: 549

Message Posted:
22/11/2009 14:16

We had the same problem in August. We looked for milk in several different supermarkets and the use by date was always the same and they were all off . We thought it might have been the heat or just a duff batch. Anyone know why this happens?

laptarunner



Joined: 02/11/2009
Posts: 217

Message Posted:
22/11/2009 21:32

They have a cleaning problem, normally fresh milk packed in hot countries will not keep, but the latest technlogy allows fresh milk to be packed in what is known as super clean conditions.



All the packaging is subject to sterile conditions, the milk is not super heated which gives the UHT taste. The bottles are packed in safe condition air condition, positive pressure or in Co2 to prevent bacteria growing.



These machines require very special cleaning and sterlising to prevent, the milk going off.



I suspect the problems lay there. Back to UHT for a while or UHT milk is held in stock for a week to 10 days before being sold. Plus the dairy has time to carry out checks.