Update 1: Fold Hill Foods recall several cat food products because of safety concerns

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What to do

Advice from the FSA notice:

1. If you have bought any of the above products you should stop feeding them to your cat. If you have bought an AVA product contact www.petsathome.com and fill out the contact form on the help page or livechat. If you have bought an Applaws product contact www.applaws.com/uk/contact-us. If you have bought a Sainsbury’s product contact www.sainsburys.co.uk/help or their Customer Careline on 0800 636262. If cat owners are concerned about the health of their pet then they should seek immediate advice from their vet.

Why it was recalled

The FSA's risk statement:

There is concern on the safety of the products listed above. There has been an increase in cases of pancytopenia in cats and there is a possible link to the cat food products listed above. Pancytopenia is a very rare condition wherein the number of blood cells (red, white and platelets) rapidly decreases, causing serious illness.

Details from the notice

Fold Hill Foods is taking the precautionary action of recalling several hypoallergenic cat food products because of safety concerns. This product recall information notice has been updated to include all best before dates for Applaws products with the site code GB218E5009. This is not due to the identification of further safety concerns, but is a voluntary action by the manufacturer to make things easier for consumers to understand which products have been affected.

A Product Recall Information Notice tells the public about food that is unsafe and is being removed from sale.

What the business is doing

Fold Hill Foods is recalling the above products. Point of sale notices will be displayed in all retail stores that are selling these products. These notices explain to customers why the products are being recalled and tell them what to do if they have bought the product. Please see the attached notices.

Where it was sold

• Sainsbury's

Updates to this recall

1. 15 June 2021 · FSA-PRIN-36-2021
   Original alert: Fold Hill Foods recall several cat food products because of safety concerns
2. 17 June 2021 · FSA-PRIN-36-2021-update-1
   Update 1: Update 1: Fold Hill Foods recall several cat food products because of safety concerns
   • New batch or date details: batch GB218E5009

How this recall compares

• This was the 7th recall involving Sainsbury's in the 12 months to 15 June 2021. All Sainsbury's recalls
• 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.

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