A grocer from Violay, in the Loire was sentenced Tuesday to 3,000 euros in fines for having proposed for sale food completely unfit for consumption.
We all have one day or another bought without paying attention a product whose deadline of sale was just exceeded. It's annoying, but not necessarily dramatic. The store that offers for sale expired products is obviously at fault but, once alerted, it usually offers the exchange or refund of the product incriminated - and apologizes.
But in this minimarket Proxy de Violay (Loire), the wind deadlines were more than exceeded: dangerously surreal. Imagine: the rays had meat whose expiration date was exceeded by more than 149 days. And dairy products that have been out of date for 40 days.
In other words, products that are dangerous for the health of consumers.
By controlling this store twice, in May and in July 2016, the prefectural services fell from the clouds, reports 20 Minutes . Before summoning the grocer to justice.
This Tuesday, the manager of 49 years - absent at the hearing - was sentenced to 3,000 euros in fines and fines by the Criminal Court of Roanne. And was banned from carrying on any food business for five years.