Spar Milk

[thewalrus]

Funny because it’s generally the best milk you can buy over in Northern Ireland

 

[betweenthelines]

Speaking from experience smaller shops tend to have limited chiller space and tend to use what they have for beer and soft drinks, with milk deliveries being left "out the back" or in some cases dropped on the doorstep before the shop is staffed-called "dead dropping" in the trade.

Of course supermarkets would never break the chill chain -apart from Christmas week when everything can be left in the yard!

 

[Blue.]

I doubt it’s the shops,milk being left on lay-bys in artics for days doesn’t help.

 

[Still Farming]

Muller excellent to keep and can easily exceed use and sell by date by nearly a week but farm gate often never reaches those days in the first place ???

 

[upnortheast]

Funny because it’s generally the best milk you can buy over in Northern Ireland

Aye, but Irish spar milk is unlikely to have come from the processor mentioned above

 

[spark plug]

For the workshop I buy pint bottles of milk for making tea, no fridge so In the summer tend to get 2 days, but if the milk is from Payne’s dairy’s sometimes doesn’t make it to the end of the first day.

I blamed the practices of the shop it came from, but there seems to be a theme going on.

 

[thewalrus]

Aye, but Irish spar milk is unlikely to have come from the processor mentioned above

Obviously

 

[ollie989898]

99% of milk keeping issues are storage temperature related in our experience.
We get occasional complaints.
Your milk is going off before it`s date
If at all possible we go to the customer with our calibrated thermometer
Usually find fridge is over 8 degrees. Record is 13 degrees
Comments like, " but I put it back in the fridge every night "
& " the fridge is working fine, the light comes on when I open the door "

Our cold store runs at 2 degrees & an unopened bottle is fine at 17 days

The thought of having a fridge at 8 degrees or something makes me feel ill just contemplating it... milk would be the very last thing I'd worry about in that circumstance!

 

[upnortheast]

The thought of having a fridge at 8 degrees or something makes me feel ill just contemplating it...

It`s very common. Many folk don`t have a clue what temp their fridge runs at
It should be standard practice for manufacturers to incorporate a temp display.
But many don`t

 

[thesilentone]

Believe me, the fridge and temp is not the issue, it's older than most on here and works a treat. It's an LEC the size of a wardrobe.

 

[upnortheast]

Believe me, the fridge and temp is not the issue, it's older than most on here and works a treat. It's an LEC the size of a wardrobe.

I was not refering to your fridge. Our issues are usually with shop fridges.

 

[coomoo]

 

[thorpe]

i take a flask of coffe in amorning has to last 12 hrs min somtimes 18 hrs only cravendale can hack it i felt guilty wheen i stopped the milkman but he was done at 9am i was still going at 9pm.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Inform Environmental Health, as they can trace the chain back.

 

[farmerdan7618]

It`s very common. Many folk don`t have a clue what temp their fridge runs at
It should be standard practice for manufacturers to incorporate a temp display.
But many don`t

You'd be amazed at the number of fridges where the display temp doesn't match the inside temp.
Much the same as you, any customer who is having problems with milk keeping will have a random bottle probed and replaced next delivery, almost always over the 5 degrees marked on the bottle.
It's often the fan in the fridge that is the problem, cold at the bottom, and warm at the top. Solutions usually involve a fridge engineer.
At some stage it hasn't been stored correctly, that may be your home, the shop, distribution, the dairy or the farm, in that order of probability.

 

[betweenthelines]

Not so likely with a corner shop like a Spar, but a lot of "out-of-chill" issues are due to shopping habits.

Do a big shop with queuing at the checkouts, put the shopping in the boot, pick up the kids from school on the way home, sort them out with their tea before the shopping gets put away and you have several hours of milk getting warm.

 

[thesilentone]

Update:

As stated earlier. I wrote to Paynes Dairy's and sent a copy to Spar and Red Tractor. The only respondent was Spar, they informed me the owner of the Spar would contact me, to date they have not.

I have written to Spar again today, lets see if anything happens.