Innovative Bites and American Fizz recall Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bites due to undeclared and incorrect labelling of allergens
Act if you are allergic to gluten, wheat and egg
This alert is for people with an allergy or intolerance to gluten, wheat and egg, or coeliac disease. The allergen is not declared correctly on the label.
Check your pack
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bites
Pack size: 88g- Batch code
- All batches
- Best before
- 09/02/2019
The latest affected best-before date was 9 February 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:
- If you have bought the above product and have an allergy or intolerance to egg, wheat or gluten do not eat it. Instead return it to the place from where it was bought for a full refund.
Why it was recalled
The FSA's risk statement:
Egg and wheat
This product may contain egg and wheat making it a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to egg and/or an allergy to wheat and/or an intolerance to gluten.
Details from the notice
Innovative Bites and American Fizz are recalling Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bites because they may contain egg and wheat which are not (or not correctly) mentioned on the packaging. This means the product is a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to egg, wheat or gluten.
An Allergy Alert is issued when an allergen is missing from the label or labelled wrongly.
What the business is doing
Innovative Bites and American Fizz are recalling the above product from customers and have been advised to contact the relevant allergy support organisations, which will tell their members about the recall. The companies have issued point-of-sale notices to their customers. These notices explain to customers why the product is being recalled and tells them what to do if they have bought the product
How this recall compares
- 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.
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