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Allergy alert Published FSA-AA-08-2018

Optima Consumer Health Care recalls Glucosamine Tablets and Omega Choice 3-6-9 capsules due to incorrect allergen labelling

Act if you are allergic to soya, sesame, fish, crustaceans and molluscs

This alert is for people with an allergy or intolerance to soya, sesame, fish, crustaceans and molluscs. The allergen is not declared correctly on the label.

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Optima Glucosamine Complex

Pack size: 30, 60 and 90 Tablets
Best before
All dates and batch codes

Optima Omega Choice 3-6-9

Pack size: 120 capsules
Best before
All dates and batch codes

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 products and have an allergy to fish and/or molluscs and/or crustaceans and/or sesame and/or soya do not eat them. Instead return them to the store from where they were bought for a full refund.
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Why it was recalled

The FSA's risk statement:

Fish, molluscs, crustaceans

These products contain and ingredients derived from fish, molluscs or crustaceans making them a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy to fish and/or molluscs and/or crustaceans.

Product: Optima Omega Choice 3-6-9

Pack size: 120 capsules

Best before: All dates and batch codes

Risk:

Sesame, soya

These products contain and ingredients derived from sesame or soya making them a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy to sesame and/or soya.

No other Optima Consumer Healthcare Limited products are known to be affected

Details from the notice

Optima Consumer Healthcare Limited is recalling Optima Glucosamine tablets which contain fish, molluscs and crustaceans and, Omega Choice 3-6-9 capsules which contain sesame and soya. These allergens are not correctly identified on the label and are a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy to fish, molluscs, crustaceans, sesame or soya.

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

What the business is doing

Optima Consumer Healthcare Limited is recalling the above products 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. These notices explain to customers why the product is/products are being recalled and tell them what to do if they have bought the product(s). Please see the attached notice.

How this recall compares

  • Undeclared soya is behind 112 UK allergy alerts since 2018, the 3rd most common allergen. All soya allergy alerts

Counts from FSA and FSS alerts since January 2018.