Retail Food admits extending use-by dates
Retail Food Group has acknowledged extending use-by dates on food products but says it is withdrawing them from sale by franchisees.
RFG says its brands, which include Michel's Patisserie, asked less than one per cent of its 1,000 suppliers to request shelf life extension "where appropriate and safe to do so".
RFG's share price collapsed over the past two years after it was accused of badly mistreating franchisees, and a parliamentary inquiry this year said management had been either "unethical" or "incompetent".
