Supermarket Recalls "Underweight" Garlic Bread
Tesco has withdrawn over 66,000 packs of garlic bread slices after an investigation by Aberdeenshire Council’s Trading Standards Service discovered a number of packets on sale were underweight.
During the course of two visits to Tesco stores in the North East, officers discovered 39 packs of the supermarket’s own-brand garlic bread slices were below the declared weight.
One 290g pack was recorded as having a net weight of 229.8g - 20% less than it should've been.
The law says legal liability in such circumstances is on the packer of the goods and not the seller.
The producer of the products, Bakkavor Foods Ltd, has since put in place a number of measures to avoid a repeat of the incident.
Trading Standards manager, Wilma Urquhart, said: “Aberdeenshire Council’s Trading Standards Service takes these incidents extremely seriously and we were pleased to see that the supermarket acted swiftly following the discovery.
“By issuing an Emergency Product Withdrawal, batches worth £93,000 have been removed from the shelves.
“Our work is very important in protecting both consumers and businesses from unfair competition and the service will continue to work with both Tesco and Bakkavor to ensure legislative compliance.”