Last night FOX 5 did a scare story about the horrors of outdated packaged meat
If it has expired and you eat it you will get sick!
And if you discover it is expired and take it back half the stores will put it back on the shelf. 3/4 of the way through they had a doctor who said even if packaged cooked meat was 5 or even 10 days beyond it's expired date chances of you getting ill are slim.
At the very end of the report a very serious looking somber female reporter in her best motherly tone showed a bag of expired meat to the camera and said "Fox 5 takes this very seriously so we bought all the expired meat products they used in their investigation so consumers would not buy them by accident.