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Allergy alert Published FSA-AA-21-2019

Waitrose recalls Waitrose Cooks' Ingredients Dark Chocolate Chips and Cooks' Ingredients Dark Chocolate Chunks because of undeclared milk

Act if you are allergic to milk

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

Check your pack

Waitrose Cooks' Ingredients Dark Chocolate Chips

Pack size: 100g
Best before
’: All dates

Waitrose Cooks' Ingredients Dark Chocolate Chunks

Pack size: 100g
Best before
’: All dates

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 or intolerance to milk or milk constituents, 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:

These products may contain milk or milk constituents making them a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to milk or milk constituents.

Details from the notice

Waitrose is recalling Waitrose Cooks' Ingredients Dark Chocolate Chips and Cooks' Ingredients Dark Chocolate Chunks because they may contain milk which is not mentioned on the label. This means the products are a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to milk or milk constituents.

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

What the business is doing

Waitrose is recalling the above products from customers and has contacted 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.

Where it was sold

How this recall compares

  • This was the 14th recall involving Waitrose in the 12 months to 26 February 2019. All Waitrose recalls
  • Undeclared milk is behind 270 UK allergy alerts since 2018, more than any other allergen. All milk allergy alerts

Counts from FSA and FSS alerts since January 2018.