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Food Standards Scotland’s news and food alerts, including product recalls and allergy alerts.
Food alert - UK
UPDATE: Cornish Charcuterie recalls various types of its pates and rillettes because of a failure of procedures to control Clostridium botulinum
Cornish Charcuterie is extending the recall to also include their Westcountry Duck Confit in addition to pates and rillettes because of concerns over the company’s procedures in place to control Clostridium botulinum.
Allergy alert - UK
Tesco recalls a batch of its Creamy Leek and Bacon Cooking Sauce because of undeclared egg
Tesco is recalling a batch of its Creamy Leek and Bacon Cooking Sauce because it contains egg which is not mentioned on the label. This means the product is a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to egg.
Blog
Chief Scientific Advisor Blog - How Food Standards Scotland is using science and evidence in diet and nutrition
Food is one of the great pleasures in life and we all enjoy some foods we know are not so good for us.
Food alert - UK
Peter’s Food Service recalls various baked goods products as they may contain glass fragments
Peter’s Food Service Ltd recalls several baked meat and vegetarian pasty products because they may contain glass fragments. Products include ASDA, LIDL and Peter’s brand products.
Food alert - UK
Houghton Hams recalls two of its Northamptonshire Cured Ham products due to incorrect ‘Use by’ dates
Houghton Hams is recalling two of its Northamptonshire Cured Ham products as some packs have been incorrectly labelled with a ‘Use by’ date of 19 August 2018, instead of 19 August 2017. The affected products are only sold at Waitrose.
