Petition I urge the government to ensure all food that has past it's best before date be sent to charities, food banks or the homeless not the supermarket bin!

The NHS tells us that "Best before dates are about quality, not safety. When the date is passed, it doesn't mean that the food will be harmful, but it might begin to lose its flavour and texture."

Yet today we found 20+ bags of Doritos crisps in a Tesco store that were past their best before date by 8 days.

We requested to speak with the manager about getting them written off so we could take them to our local charity food bank.

The manager told us "it's against the law for us to give you these", we said ok, what if we sign a waiver. He said no, he would love to but it's against the law.

He told us they would be put in the bin & there is nothing we can do about it.

Well we can do something about this! We urge the Prime minister & government to reconsider food dates and how supermarkets handle these.

Now I'm sure you may comment saying that some shops already give food to charity/other companies to sell on etc

It's ridiculous at the moment & we need change.