Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s is advising customers not to consume a certain chocolate product and to return it to the store.
The retailer has had to take action concerning one of its popular confectionery items, the 150g Belgian Milk Chocolate Honeycomb Pretzel bar. As of Tuesday, Sainsbury’s has announced that a specific batch of this product will be removed from supermarket shelves – with Easter looming.
Customers who have purchased the product with the batch code “L159922” are urged to get in touch with the supplier immediately. The potential presence of metal fragments has been cited as the reason for the recall of this tasty treat, reports Birmingham Live.
The supermarket’s website reads: “If you have purchased the above product with the affected batch code, please do not consume this product and instead return it to any Sainsbury’s store for a refund. For any further information, please contact Sainsbury’s Careline team on 0800 636 262. No other Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference confectionery products have been affected by this issue. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.”
This recent announcement follows a series of other product recalls. Just last week, Lidl’s well-known Sol and Mar Chicharricos barbecue Pork Scratchings were also recalled. The Food Standards Agency attributed the possible risk of Salmonella as the cause for this action. Customers are advised to return any recalled products to the store where they were purchased for a full refund.
And a nationally popular cheese has been immediately recalled and labelled as contaminated, with fears circling that the product could contain deadly bacteria. The product, which is sold in a majority of UK supermarkets, has been warned against by Food Standards Scotland (FSS) as potentially containing a dangerous bacteria that kills one in 20 people and can even lead to kidney failure.
FSS have said that this is because some of these products may include Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), a group of bacteria which can cause severe cases of food poising and life-threatening kidney problems. Also known as verocytoxin producing E. coli (VTEC), this group is home to strains which can cause serious diarrhoeal illness – as was seen in Germany in 2011. This advisory was placed onto Isle of Mull Cheese’s Hebridean Blue Cheese – though other Isle of Mull Cheese products appear to free of the virus.
The most common STEC strand in the UK is O157, according to the Public Health England’s report from 2017. Whilst some experience stomach cramps and bloody diarrhoea, others have been known to not to become ill from exposure.
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