Dunnes Stores receives paltry fine for selling infant food nine years out of date

[mathepac]

Irish Times Report

The report is factually incorrect. The fine was €23,423, the HSE's legal costs were €8,289.

Dunnes also agreed to pay a miserly €10,000 to an unspecified charity.

To me, this equates to Dunnes proferring their corporate wrist but the judge failing to slap it.

I wonder was the child compensated for being hospitalised or was the family for the enormous shock, stress, and worry.

 

[ClubMan]

The report is factually incorrect.

It's also confusing. Was the child "violently" ill (I somehow doubt that that's a medical assessment) or did it just regurgitate the out of date feed (not an unusual occurrence with babies even with in date formula!)? And having been observed in hospital presumably it was discharged without further issue?

A five-week-old baby became violently ill when fed Aptamil ready-to-feed infant formula bought at a shop in Trimgate Street, Navan, Co Meath.

The baby’s father purchased 13 bottles of Aptimal on February 8th last year and fed the infant one of the bottles two days later.

The child vomited and was later taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda and kept there under observation.

Shouldn't have happened obviously but no point in throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

 

[Marsupial]

I'm sceptical. And, if this was my website, then this comment would be longer.

 

[T McGibney]

Supermarkets don't pay fines.

Their customers do.

 

[ClubMan]

I'm sceptical. And, if this was my website, then this comment would be longer.

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