By Ian Quinn2021-04-21T16:16:00+01:00
Legal experts describe the £7.5m fine given to Tesco for selling out-of-date food at three of its stores in Birmingham as a “game changer” .
The penalty handed out on Monday, after it pleaded guilty to 22 offences between 2015 and 2017, is five times the previous biggest food safety fine – dished out to pub chain Mitchells & Butlers in 2015. In that case, a woman died and more than 30 others fell ill from food poisoning.
Before that, the £1m fine faced by Cadbury held the unenviable record, for a salmonella outbreak in 2007 that left more than 40 people ill and led to the recall of more than a million chocolate bars.