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eBay food related products,safe to buy?

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  • 17-12-2012 10:18am
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    Seamus1964
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    Hi!

    Have you ever purchased any food products from ebay? What about Jack Links jerky or homemade biltong?
    There are number of food related products for sale there : kombucha mushrooms, crisps, cereals..you name it.
    How do I know that use by date is not passed or if there is any end by date at all?
    Who can guarantee that homemade snacks are safe to buy from ebay ( e.g. how do I know that buying homemade jerky - does not contain any part of cats or dogs?)

    I been "lucky" to see once home where housewife made regulary cakes to local village kids parties. Hygiene in this house was very questionable. All sort of pets running around the table, small kids who needed continuous attention from mum.. I really do believe that she did not have any licence to run such business.

    Post your experience (and other comments) here.


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    rubadub
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    Common sense has to come into it. If you find a seller you could post the item and let people have a look and point out things.

    I would not trust homemade biltong much, I would not trust it much in a shop or market here either, let alone ebay.

    I know guys who worked in 2 different well known supermarkets with bad practice -I don't think this was intentional. It was both cases of cross contamination, like you will see many professional chefs do on TV too. In some cases TV editing might drop out some cleaning they do in between steps, but on loads of live TV chef programs I see them clearly cross contaminating of varying degrees -i.e. some is just nasty, like double dipping saliva which is later cooked, but some is properly dangerous.


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    CJhaughey
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    If you eat frankfurters, I am pretty sure you will have eaten some things that would make your toenails curl.


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    The Hill Billy
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    Seamus1964 wrote: »
    ...How do I know that use by date is not passed or if there is any end by date at all?
    Who can guarantee that homemade snacks are safe to buy from ebay ( e.g. how do I know that buying homemade jerky - does not contain any part of cats or dogs...
    Any online food purchases will be entirely at your own risk. Also, the Food & Drink forums are not the place to ask for safety advice.

    I suggest that you would be better discussing online purchases in the Consumer Issues forum.

    Sharing of 'horror stories' as you would appear to be looking for will probably only result in hearsay or defamatory statements.

    Closed.

    tHB


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