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Allergy alert Published FSS-AA-035-2024

Top Scot Foods recalls various products because of undeclared soy

Act if you are allergic to soya

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

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Beef Sausage

Pack size: 200g
Use by
All use-by dates up to and including 25 September 2024

Breakfast Pack (small)

Pack size: 200g
Use by
All use-by dates up to and including 25 September 2024

Onion Slice

Pack size: 200g
Use by
All use-by dates up to and including 25 September 2024

Square Slice

Pack size: 200g
Use by
All use-by dates up to and including 25 September 2024

Steak Slice

Pack size: 200g
Use by
All use-by dates up to and including 25 September 2024

Breakfast Pack (large)

Pack size: 700g
Use by
All use-by dates up to and including 25 September 2024

The latest affected use-by date was 25 September 2024, 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 Food Standards Scotland notice:

  1. If you have bought the above products and have an allergy to 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

Food Standards Scotland's risk statement:

Soya

These products contain soya making them a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy to soya

Details from the notice

Top Scot Foods is recalling various products because they contain soya which is not mentioned on the label. This means the products are a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy to soya.

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

What the business is doing

Top Scot Foods 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 products are being recalled and tell them what to do if they have bought the products. Please see the attached notice.

Information on Food Standards Scotlands work on food allergy and intolerance can be found at: http://www.foodstandards.gov.scot/food-safety-standards/food-allergy.

Advice on food allergy and intolerance can be found at: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/foodallergy/Pages/Intro1.aspx

Customer Notice - Allergy Alert -

Where it was sold

The FSA lists this alert for: Scotland.

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.