Reports say retailer Coop whose reputation has been damaged by a meat scandal will commission an external firm to prevent further malpractice.
Coop boss Joos Sutter told the Sonntags Blick newspaper that from the beginning of next year an independent quality control company would make unannounced visits to the butcher’s sections of its supermarkets.
The move is in response to revelations by a German-language consumer television programme, Kassensturz, that packaged meat past its use-by date was routinely removed from its packaging and offered for sale at the open meat counter as fresh meat.
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