Kopek Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Hardly 'doomed' but it would be nice to know what was wrong, indeed, we deserve to know? Even if one machine was shredding its bearings and that meat had to be withdrawn, that would not mean production could not continue without that machine!!! Are we Mushrooms??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Wrong use by date according to IOM Today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Onchan Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 5 hours ago, Kopek said: Does anyone know the 'actual' reason the meat had to be withdrawn? It's blamed on a packing machine, bit vague? Could have been metal shards on the meat, a gearbox oil leak, tho' food machines use food safe lubricants. There was some speculation of sabotage! Any more info? FFS sabotage?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passing Time Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 7 hours ago, CallMeCurious said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-68173958 Oh dear the Meat Plant woes continue. Good job it's run at arms length. Well apart from the £2 million subvention which no doubt will be increased now to cover the cost of the latest mess. The action plan implimented 14 months ago seems not to be working too well. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-63636454 That story is from 2022 you clown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeCurious Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 1 hour ago, Passing Time said: That story is from 2022 you clown https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-68173958 The first article is from 2024 but the SECOND link to the 2022 article was background and context. But guess that was too difficult to comprehend. Guess I'll just go back to the circus on Prospect Hill shall I? 🤡 Turns out they put the wrong 'use by date' on their products https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/wrong-use-by-date-sparks-isle-of-man-meats-product-recall-664197 It'll be chalked up to human error no doubt. Though that begs the question why there is room for error on a critical peice of labelling information in a presumably automated system. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 28 minutes ago, CallMeCurious said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-68173958 The first article is from 2024 but the SECOND link to the 2022 article was background and context. But guess that was too difficult to comprehend. Guess I'll just go back to the circus on Prospect Hill shall I? 🤡 Turns out they put the wrong 'use by date' on their products https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/wrong-use-by-date-sparks-isle-of-man-meats-product-recall-664197 It'll be chalked up to human error no doubt. Though that begs the question why there is room for error on a critical peice of labelling information in a presumably automated system. Perhaps they didn't know it is a leap year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 10 hours ago, CallMeCurious said: It'll be chalked up to human error no doubt. Though that begs the question why there is room for error on a critical peice of labelling information in a presumably automated system. I doubt very much it's automated - or indeed could. Trying to find out what the rules are for setting "Use By" on meat (or anything else) seems very difficult and may be more to do with what the contract with the retailer states. And it will be influenced by what the meat is, how it has been treated, what cut it and so on will mean it varies. And there's much discussion about whether it's still OK, even preferable, to eat it after the specified date. It turns out that only one batch of beef was actually recalled according to Gef and that very little had gone on sale and only at Tesco on Wednesday morning. Of course even that may still have been within date at the time. I suspect the real story here is how poor Government Comms are. If you look at the press release they put out it could have been designed to maximise panic without providing any concrete information. As so often recently it seems to be more about civil servants a best protecting their own backs and at worse throwing their weight around just because they can. Not so much creating a drama out of a crisis as out of a glitch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Poppins Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 How out of date are we talking? If it's a few days then it's not that bad, but if we're talking a month or two then that's different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Still in date according to the PR. use by 5 Feb!!! Or 7 Feb!!! Why 2 dates? Sell by and Use by? Maybe the two dates were the mistake, maybe too short a date for the retailers to sell within? Not a convincing explanation. Possibly triggered by social media comment? Strange! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbnuts Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 (edited) Latest collateral damage from our wonderful meat plant. This really has gone on far too long. Buy local they say .!! Andreas meats latest post. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news 😔 however, we will have to close our website down with immediate effect. I will be in contact with the customers, who have ordered for Tuesday deliveries, in due course. (Friday 12th April- are OK at the moment but are subject to change). We didn't have any pork or beef delivered to us from IOM Meats this afternoon. With this in mind, we will have a reduced range of our products for the coming week. Apologies again for any inconvenience caused. We really do appreciate your patience at this time. Edited April 5 by Numbnuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 A lorry driver rang the Mannin Line yesterday to see when delivering to the meatplant he saw beef being skipped. All kinds of rumours of non-deliveries and wastage. What is going on there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 2 minutes ago, Gladys said: A lorry driver rang the Mannin Line yesterday to see when delivering to the meatplant he saw beef being skipped. All kinds of rumours of non-deliveries and wastage. What is going on there? just the usual IOMG incompetence. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbnuts Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 (edited) Massive subsidy too needed to run it. Not sure how much but it always needs an injection to enable it to carry ! on. If there throwing meat away that I presume farmers have been paid for the carcasses then it’s a double whammy . Good old Government. Just looked it up and it’s now under the treasury with the last injection of funds 2 million . Moved from DEFA Edited April 5 by Numbnuts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A fool and his money..... Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 1 hour ago, Gladys said: A lorry driver rang the Mannin Line yesterday to see when delivering to the meatplant he saw beef being skipped. All kinds of rumours of non-deliveries and wastage. What is going on there? No idea, it's an arms length operation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Cutting off the mouldy bits from stuff that's been laying around there for weeks yuk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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