Quick Question about where to report spoiled chicken from a grocery store

[La Lioness Priyanka]

So my local grocery store c-town frequently sells spoiled chicken (bad smelling but far away from expiration date). I was complaining about this to my mother who said that they have the same problem in their local c-town.

This happens constantly (well, i have stopped buying chicken there for a while, but every once in a while I forget, and then BOOM stinky chicken!!)

Is there some agency I should/could report this to? Who would it be?

[elleng]

1. The mayor, city health department, state health department,

and the newspapers, of course.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Your local health department

Preferably county level.

Some cities have them, and unless it is NYC they are mostly paper tigers.

Point out that food borne illnesses could be tracked down to the stinky chicken.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. thanks! i'll do that

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Oh and likely it is the fridges

If they are not to temp, what else is not good?

[Egalitarian Thug]

12. Nope. It's factory chicken farming. Chickens are crawling with everything from salmonella to

Enterococcus right out the door. They regularly test 65% - 80% contaminated. If you ever want to quit your chicken habit, spend a few days in any fast food chicken restaurant, the tubs that the raw chicken is kept in prior to cooking builds up so much bacteria in just a few hours in the walk-in that you can scoop it up.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. I buy the exact same chicken from other grocery stores

without this problem.

So no, it's not factory farming that is wholly responsible for this

[htuttle]

3. Local health inspector

Same office that inspects restaurants, would be my guess. You're supposed to need a license to sell food in most places, and that license would be local.

[grasswire]

6. go get them

...for the sake of people who might get sick. If you have a local TV station that likes to do investigative stories, report it to their tip line.

And your health department. I've done that about bad fish.

[jsr]

7. Call the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 1-888-674-6854

or report it online at https://ccms.fsis.usda.gov

[Coyotl]

8. Shop elsewhere.

[msongs]

9. make a sign & stand outside: "WARNING - this store sells stinky chicken"

that will generate some needed attention!

[itsrobert]

10. The Deli Department

They should be taking the spoil chicken and frying up or roasting it for the Deli. Doesn't this grocery store not know how to maximize profits?

[gelsdorf]

11. The cold chain is getting broken somewhere

no doubt sitting outside of a cooler in a backroom until someone breaks down the pallet. (40 years in grocery here) it amazing what goes on in the back rooms

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Yup, or as I said above

Fridges are not to temp.

Three years in fast food industry. The keep those fridges to temp was just drilled.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

17. yes, this is what i suspect

[Laffy Kat]

14. Hate to say this but it's not a problem in more affluent neighborhoods.

I go out of my way to buy my groceries in communities with mini mansions and a higher per capita income. Why: because the grocery chains ship all of their "about to expire" and questionable perishable food (meat, poultry, eggs, etc.) to the less-affluent stores. I swear by it just by personal experience.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. My moms neighbourhood is highly affluent and mine is at least middle class

[spooky3]

18. Ditto here. Our grocery has problems

With the salad bar and some frozen food. After several problems I just stopped going to the salad bar, which used to be a favorite, and buy frozen foods less often, or elsewhere. I think the temperature drops too low either during transport or at the store, and obviously they aren't going to change how they do things.

[Laffy Kat]

19. Just speaking from my own experience but there is also, IMO, one chain that is worse

than the others about this practice.

[Fumesucker]

20. I read your title as "where to report spoiled children from a grocery store"