An old freezer is said to have failed
Isle of Man Meats has revealed it's had to dispose of some of its freezer stock.
Over the weekend of the 22nd July, an older piece of equipment failed.
By law, stock must be held at minus 12 degrees or below, but the temperature rose to minus 5 degrees.
Therefore all the stock had to be disposed of.
Similar laws exist for pet food so it couldn't be used for that instead.
The stock value was around £40,000 of potential sales.
It's not the first time this year meat stocks have had to be disposed of.
Back in April, almost two tonnes had to be binned when errors with stock management saw some produce go past its shelf life.
Meanwhile in January beef products had to be recalled after a packaging machine broke down.
In a statement, Isle of Man Meats says it focuses on selling out fresh stock, and uses the freezer as necessary to prevent wastage from unsold stock that is close to end of shelf life, as well as to build up stocks of red offal to sell to the pet-food industries.
It says, "Whilst waste occurs at each point in the chain across the food industry it is something that we strive to prevent, however legislation is in place to protect human health, and must take priority."
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