1. The expired food in the supermarket will be returned to the local distributor first, and the supermarket will not lose anything, because the agreement between the supermarket and the distributor has expired returns, which is detrimental to the return terms. The expired food recovered by the dealer is returned to the original manufacturer and replaced with new goods;

2. The manufacturer's methods for handling expired food are as follows:

(1) Generally, lime is buried deep or treated in a degradation tank, combustible materials are sent to a garbage incineration station, and non-combustible materials are treated harmlessly or destroyed in a unified way, and packaged and destroyed together;

(2) Biscuits, breads and other grain foods have expired and are uniformly processed into feed for recycling as fertilizer;

(3) However, not all expired foods can be returned. For example, some brands of high-end food, overdue by the dealer.

Legal basis: Article 54 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Food Safety Law.

Food business operators shall store food in accordance with the requirements of ensuring food safety, regularly check the stored food, and promptly clean up the food that has deteriorated or exceeded its shelf life.

When storing bulk food, food business operators shall indicate the name, production date or batch number, shelf life, producer name and contact information of the food at the storage place.

Article 122

Anyone who, in violation of the provisions of this Law, engages in food production and marketing activities without obtaining a food production and marketing license, or engages in food additive production activities without obtaining a food additive production license, the food safety supervision and administration department of the people's government at or above the county level shall confiscate the illegal income, illegally produced and marketed food, food additives and tools, equipment, raw materials and other articles used for illegal production and marketing; If the value of food and food additives illegally produced and operated is less than 1 10,000 yuan, a fine of more than 50,000 yuan110,000 yuan will be imposed; If the value of goods is more than 1 10,000 yuan, a fine of more than 10 and less than 20 times shall be imposed.

Knowing that it is an illegal act stipulated in the preceding paragraph, but still providing production and business premises or other conditions, the food safety supervision and administration department of the people's government at or above the county level shall order it to stop the illegal act, confiscate its illegal income and impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; Those who harm the legitimate rights and interests of consumers shall be jointly and severally liable with the producers and operators of food and food additives.