Criticism of Tesco firms, including Tesco and Asda, said they shared shoppers' "anger and outrage". Whitbread vowed to remedy the unacceptable situation on 26 February . The Food Standards Agency's (FSA) chief executive, Catherine Brown also said "it is unlikely we will ever know" how many unwittingly ate horse meat. On 22 May 2007 the BBC's "Whistleblower" programme showed undercover footage detailing breaches of food hygiene rules in a branch of Tesco. The Whistleblower reporter applied for a job following a tip-off from a former employee. Breaches included the sale of products after their sell-by date; allegations that the company illegally and sold
Criticism of Tesco was fully recovered. "Kitching v Tesco Stores" [1995] C.L.Y. 1731, Miss Kitching was a checkout lady, aged 22. She injured her wrist badly when she tried to stop some soft drinks falling on her. She won £5500 for injury in the course of employment, because she had pain, possibly permanent, in her arm and she was hindered in her hobbies of swimming and writing to pen-pals. "Tesco Stores Ltd v Elogicom Ltd" 2006 EWHC 403, Tesco won a passing off action against misuse of its Internet domain name. "Weight Watchers UK Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd" 2003 EWHC 1109, Tesco