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So my local grocery store c-town frequently sells spoiled chicken (bad smelling but far away from expiration date). I was complaining about this to my mother who said that they have the same problem in their local c-town.
This happens constantly (well, i have stopped buying chicken there for a while, but every once in a while I forget, and then BOOM stinky chicken!!)
Is there some agency I should/could report this to? Who would it be?
elleng
(131,145 posts)and the newspapers, of course.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Preferably county level.
Some cities have them, and unless it is NYC they are mostly paper tigers.
Point out that food borne illnesses could be tracked down to the stinky chicken.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)If they are not to temp, what else is not good?
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Enterococcus right out the door. They regularly test 65% - 80% contaminated. If you ever want to quit your chicken habit, spend a few days in any fast food chicken restaurant, the tubs that the raw chicken is kept in prior to cooking builds up so much bacteria in just a few hours in the walk-in that you can scoop it up.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)without this problem.
So no, it's not factory farming that is wholly responsible for this
htuttle
(23,738 posts)Same office that inspects restaurants, would be my guess. You're supposed to need a license to sell food in most places, and that license would be local.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)...for the sake of people who might get sick. If you have a local TV station that likes to do investigative stories, report it to their tip line.
And your health department. I've done that about bad fish.
jsr
(7,712 posts)or report it online at https://ccms.fsis.usda.gov
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)msongs
(67,453 posts)that will generate some needed attention!
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)They should be taking the spoil chicken and frying up or roasting it for the Deli. Doesn't this grocery store not know how to maximize profits?
gelsdorf
(240 posts)no doubt sitting outside of a cooler in a backroom until someone breaks down the pallet. (40 years in grocery here) it amazing what goes on in the back rooms
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Fridges are not to temp.
Three years in fast food industry. The keep those fridges to temp was just drilled.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)I go out of my way to buy my groceries in communities with mini mansions and a higher per capita income. Why: because the grocery chains ship all of their "about to expire" and questionable perishable food (meat, poultry, eggs, etc.) to the less-affluent stores. I swear by it just by personal experience.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)spooky3
(34,483 posts)With the salad bar and some frozen food. After several problems I just stopped going to the salad bar, which used to be a favorite, and buy frozen foods less often, or elsewhere. I think the temperature drops too low either during transport or at the store, and obviously they aren't going to change how they do things.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)than the others about this practice.