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Allergy alert Published Updated once · 15 October 2018 FSA-AA-74-2018

Booths Honey & Spelt Bread recalled because of undeclared allergens

Act if you are allergic to barley, gluten, soya, sesame and lupin

This alert is for people with an allergy or intolerance to barley, gluten, soya, sesame and lupin, or coeliac disease. The allergen is not declared correctly on the label.

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Booths Honey & Spelt Bread (labelled as Malted Flake Bloomer Bread on back of pack)

Pack size: 400g
Best before
All dates

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 or intolerance to lupin and/or sesame and/or an allergy or intolerance to barley (gluten) 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:

Soya

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

Barley (gluten), lupin and sesame.

This product contains barley (gluten), lupin and sesame making it a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to lupin and/or sesame and/or an allergy or intolerance to barley (gluten).

Details from the notice

E H Booths & Co Ltd is recalling Booths Honey & Spelt Bread because it contains barley (gluten), lupin and sesame which are not mentioned on the label. This means the product is a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy to lupin and/or sesame and/or an allergy or intolerance to barley (gluten). This supersedes the previous alert for this product issued on 12/10/18.

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.

Updates to this recall

  1. · FSA-AA-74-2018
    Original alert: Booths Honey & Spelt Bread recalled because of undeclared soya
  2. · FSA-AA-74-2018-update-1
    Update 1: Booths Honey & Spelt Bread recalled because of undeclared allergens
    • Added product: Booths Honey & Spelt Bread (labelled as Malted Flake Bloomer Bread on back of pack)
    • Removed product: Booths Honey & Spelt Bread
    • Advice to consumers was updated

How this recall compares

  • This was the 4th recall involving Booths in the 12 months to 12 October 2018. All Booths recalls
  • Undeclared gluten is behind 171 UK allergy alerts since 2018, the 2nd most common allergen. All gluten allergy alerts

Counts from FSA and FSS alerts since January 2018.