Is it illegal to change the expiration dates on food?

My Son and I went to buy a pie at a local grocery store. There was a sticky residue from an old sticker on the top. The new sticker has the expiration of the pie Dec. 23rd. My Son found one with the old sticker under the new sticker and checked the old date. The expiration was in Nov.

 

Maybe whoever put the sticker on forgot what month it was?

If it makes you that worried, I would return the pie to the store and ask for another one. You can never be too careful.

 

It depends. If the original sticker was posting an incorrect date, then no it is not illegal.

 

food lion made national headlines many years ago. changing dates on meats. it was on national news.
ps - a cake made in november would be pretty bad by now. one taste and you should know

 

At my work we deal with it all the time, sometimes we have to date alot of our stuff and if we make a mistake and notice let's say the next day, we don't pull the old stickers off and put new ones on, we have to throw it all away, so we make sure we don't make those mistakes, but they do happen.
Sheri

 

We didn't buy the pumpkin pie. They have them on sale this week.
Some of them had a different color than some of the others. So we
passed.

 

Maybe slightly off subject but watch out at the new Lowes Foods, we have founds several expired items in dairy (yogurt) and in the salad section. I still love the store though.

 

I had to tell you this from my work experience with Food Lion's deli and bakery in Florida years ago. Every morning and night, we checked expiration date. If it's old, we simply threw it out. If it's today expiration date, we put them on sale price or give out free sample tasting. Next day, we threw it out immediately before closing.

We never, never change the expiration date. We must follow our guideline from Health Inspector (mostly often they showed up unannounced and inspect our area and us people) that if the expiration date is due today or previous date, we must throw it out. Yep, that's a big waste of food. I wished we could save the foods and give it to the needy, but Food Lion doesn't like that idea - don't ask me why, perhaps money?

I'm sure this apply to all grocery stores. If one of them didn't throw out old food, then they'll get in trouble with health inspector. Customer can call and complain.

 

Actually it was at the new Lowes Foods. I wouldn't have expected it there.