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Allergy alert Published FSA-AA-71-2018

Booths Chicken Tikka Masala with Pilau Rice Pot recalled because of undeclared cashew nuts

Act if you are allergic to cashew and nuts

This alert is for people with an allergy or intolerance to cashew and nuts. The allergen is not declared correctly on the label.

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Booths Chicken Tikka Masala with Pilau Rice Pot

Pack size: 350g
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For at least one product, all date codes are affected. Check every pack you have.

What to do

Advice from the FSA notice:

  1. If you have bought the above product and have an allergy to nuts, do not eat it. Instead return it to the store from where it was bought for a full refund.
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Why it was recalled

The FSA's risk statement:

Nuts (cashew nuts)

This product contains cashew nuts making it a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy to nuts.

Details from the notice

E H Booths & Co Ltd is recalling Booths Chicken Tikka Masala with Pilau Rice Pot because it contains cashew nuts which are not mentioned on the label. This means the product is a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy to nuts.

An Allergy Alert is issued when an allergen is missing from the label or labelled wrongly.

What the business is doing

E H Booths & Co Ltd is recalling the above product from customers and has been advised to contact the relevant allergy support organisations, which will tell their members about the recall. The company has also issued a point-of-sale notice to its customers. This notice explains to customers why the product is being recalled and tells them what to do if they have bought the product. Please see the attached notice.

Where it was sold

The FSA lists this alert for: England.

How this recall compares

  • This was the 3rd recall involving Booths in the 12 months to 9 October 2018. All Booths recalls
  • Undeclared nuts is behind 111 UK allergy alerts since 2018, the 4th most common allergen. All nuts allergy alerts

Counts from FSA and FSS alerts since January 2018.