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Food alert for action Published FSA-FAFA-01-2019

Consumers advised about ready-to-eat products supplied by Café Class Ltd

Food businesses and local authorities must act

The FSA has issued a Food Alert for Action. If you bought one of these products as a consumer, follow the advice below.

Check your pack

Where to look: Some ingredients used to manufacture these products have a shorter use-by date than the use-by date displayed on the end product packaging.

All ready-to-eat products (which includes all varieties of sandwiches, wraps and salads) produced by Café Class Ltd

Pack size: All sizes
Use by
All use-by dates up to 15 September 2019

The latest affected use-by date was 15 September 2019, which has passed. Recalled products can still be in cupboards and freezers, so check any you have at home.

What to do

Advice from the FSA notice:

  1. Customers who have purchased these products are advised not to consume them and should dispose them.
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Why it was recalled

The FSA's risk statement:

As these products were not prepared in line with food hygiene and legislative requirements, they may be unsafe.

Details from the notice

A number of ready-to-eat products (sandwiches, wraps and salads) supplied in the North East of England by Café Class Ltd have not been produced in accordance with food hygiene and legislative requirements.

Some ingredients used to manufacture these products have a shorter use-by date than the use-by date displayed on the end product packaging.

Also, there is an ingredient in one product (Breakfast Sandwich) that is intended to be cooked but has been used as ready-to-eat. This presents a safety risk.

Therefore, the products are not compliant with food law requirements.

The affected products have been sold mainly in local convenience stores in the North East of England.

We have requested that enforcement authorities in the North East of England contact the food businesses within their areas to determine whether the premises hold any products supplied by Café Class Ltd or have placed on the market affected batches of product from Café Class Ltd. Any product identified should be withdrawn and recalled and disposed of by the business or by the consumer. We request that product is not returned to Café Class Ltd.

A Food Alert for Action asks local authorities and businesses to take specific action, usually because the problem is serious or widespread.

Where it was sold

The FSA lists this alert for: England.

How this recall compares

  • Unsafe production has caused 35 UK food recalls since 2018, most often in meat and poultry, followed by fruit and vegetables. All unsafe production recalls

Counts from FSA and FSS alerts since January 2018.