Red Tractor rotten turkeys

[glasshouse]

Everything they sell is cheap rubbish
Dirty deisel, bad turkeys and so on

 

[Courier]

Big distribution cold store at Scunthorpe gets produce in from Bernard Matthew’s amongst others, they were expecting turkeys in over a period of 3 days in late November with prior notice but 17 artics turned up in convoy with no notice….! doesn’t help.

 

[glasshouse]

Big distribution cold store at Scunthorpe gets produce in from Bernard Matthew’s amongst others, they were expecting turkeys in over a period of 3 days in late November with prior notice but 17 artics turned up in convoy with no notice….! doesn’t help.

 

[Drillman]

Don’t worry chaps, an army of red tractor management will be blue lighting to the scene as we speak and using there tracibility powers to ascertain exactly where it all went wrong

 

[Jerry]

Also don’t forget the retailers have no control over the way turkey is handled once it leaves the store.

Mrs Smith buys it, chucks it in car, carries on shopping for a few hours, gets home. Leaves it on the side for a few hours to get sorted for tea, then remembers to put it the fridge, but fridge thermostat not set correctly and it’s running a couple degrees warmer than it should.

 

[tullah]

I don't know of a food scare that was the fault of the producer.

They have always been due to our suppliers or the processors and retailers.

This is the main reason that assurance is hogwash.

I'm willing to bet that the problem with the turkeys lies at staff shortages not packing the deliveries away into freezers [quickly enough].

I'm willing to bet staff shortages meant the easy route was taken it was just tickboxed anyway.
Sound familiar?

 

[Barleymow]

Don’t worry chaps, an army of red tractor management will be blue lighting to the scene as we speak and using there tracibility powers to ascertain exactly where it all went wrong

Don't be silly it's a Sunday, with 2 Bank Holidays next

 

[Drillman]

Don't be silly it's a Sunday, with 2 Bank Holidays next

Ah yes good point

So some time in the new year red tractor will launch a half hearted enquiry into the whole fiasco and come to the conclusion it’s the AHDBs fault for pulling the funding

 

[roscoe erf]

 

[kiwi pom]

Does RT inspect the supply chain too?
The farmer might be very happy they're RT, they should be able to prove that all their systems were spot on and it was the supply chain that screwed up. Isn't that what assurance is for?

 

[Drillman]

Does RT inspect the supply chain too?
The farmer might be very happy they're RT, they should be able to prove that all their systems were spot on and it was the supply chain that screwed up. Isn't that what assurance is for?

rt won’t have a bloody clue where the turkey came from

 

[Still Farming]

Terrible

 

[kiwi pom]

rt won’t have a bloody clue where the turkey came from

I don't know what the procedure is for labelling turkeys, though I'd bet there is one. Any turkey farmers on here?
If the farmer is all up to date with their requirements and can show it does and has done everything correctly then it will be much harder to blame them. That's the whole point of proving you're capable of doing things properly.

 

[Yale]

Serious really.

By default farmers are being dragged into this.Red tractor is an assurance scheme for food and farms.

What has processing and storage got to do with fam assured farms?

However we are being tarred with the same Red Tractor brush.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

I don't know what the procedure is for labelling turkeys, though I'd bet there is one. Any turkey farmers on here?
If the farmer is all up to date with their requirements and can show it does and has done everything correctly then it will be much harder to blame them. That's the whole point of proving you're capable of doing things properly.

Impossible to trace , as soon as they’re beheaded the ear tags are useless

 

[DrWazzock]

How did we manage before inspectors and assurance got involved. We started killing turkeys about 10 days before Christmas. Once dressed they were stored in the cold pantry, semi underground. Customers collected them from there just before Christmas and they maybe went in their fridge then cooked. No refrigeration needed before they reached the customer. Very low food miles. All beautifully fresh and clean. Then the persecution by trading standards who didn’t have a clue began and gradually we and other small producer neighbours packed up.
So now it’s all factory produced by and large and lo and behold it can go wrong even though they burn gallons more diesel and electricity and have “assurance” in place. Well I never. What a surprise.

 

[PSQ]

Does RT inspect the supply chain too?

Have a look at the board of RT…

… they ARE the supply chain, but RT is based on the old maxim, “do as I say, not do as I do”.

 

[DrWazzock]

Cowboys will be cowboys, assured or not.

 

[solo]

It wasn’t just Tesco that had this issue. M &S and Aldi also had similar according to the news. Maybe they were all sourced from the same processor.

 

[DrWazzock]

I know nothing about the turkey story, but sad fact also is RT can be played by people who you wouldn’t trust further than you could throw them. They pass on one day of the year. The other 364 days they couldn’t give one. RT is just a veneer that gives respectability to some extremely dodgy business. More the fool those who put any trust in it. It’s not worth the paper it’s written on. What matters is I wouldn’t sell to others what I wouldn’t feed to my own family. You either have that ethos or you don’t. RT is irrelevant.