It is not unusual here for places such as shops and restaurants to be closed for a certain time. If by accident the (the hygiene department of the ministry) finds one bottle/jar/product in the shop/restaurant that is out of date, they will close shop. Even if that product is somewhere a forgotten item that has been overlooked somewhere. So it is really difficult for us the customer, to know if it was a serious infraction or....
I know this cos in the old days when we still had the Foodcentre at Midmac, they closed the shop for several months because of some jar of a ridiculous product was over the by sell date.
Aisha-Taweela