Tesco fined £7.5million after supermarkets caught selling out-of-date food

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Tesco received a whopping £7.56million fine and a stern talking to by a magistrate after it admitted selling out of date food in three of its stores.The grocery giant was handed the penalty by a judge at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court on Monday and further ordered to pay prosecution costs of £95,500, Birmingham City Council has revealed.The supermarket firm was also ordered to pay a £170 victim surcharge.The whopping fine – the equivalent of more than 2.5million of the chain's meal deals – was handed down after Tesco Stores Ltd admitted 22 breaches of the Food Safety and Hygiene Regulations, which happened between 2016 and 2017.The prosecution by the city council’s environmental health department came about after complaints were received by.