Allergy alert Published FSA-AA-44-2022

Tesco recalls various dessert products because of undeclared walnuts (nuts)

Act if you are allergic to nuts and walnut

This alert is for people with an allergy or intolerance to nuts and walnut. The allergen is not declared correctly on the label.

Check your pack

Tesco Free From Strawberry Cheesecake

Pack size: 2 x 100g
Best before
All date codes

Wicked Kitchen Millionaires Sundae

Pack size: 110g
Best before
All date codes

Wicked Kitchen Strawberry and Vanilla Cheesecake

Pack size: 100g
Best before
All date codes

Wicked Kitchen Chocolate and Vanilla Cheesecake

Pack size: 100g
Best before
All date 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 walnuts (nuts), 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:

Walnuts (nuts)

These products contain walnuts (nuts) making them a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy to walnuts (nuts).

Details from the notice

Tesco is recalling various dessert products because they contain traces of walnuts (nuts), which are not mentioned on the label. This means the products are a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy to walnuts (nuts).

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

What the business is doing

Tesco is recalling the above products from customers. The company has also issued a recall notice to its customers. These notices explain to customers why the products are being recalled and tells them what to do if they have bought the products. Please see the attached notice.

Where it was sold

How this recall compares

  • This was the 11th recall involving Tesco in the 12 months to 2 September 2022. All Tesco recalls
  • Undeclared nuts is behind 111 UK allergy alerts since 2018, the 4th most common allergen. All nuts allergy alerts

Counts from FSA and FSS alerts since January 2018.