Urgent recall of popular garlic bread over health risk fears

The UK Food Standards Agency has issued an urgent recall of a popular garlic bread due to an allergy risk.

Birds Eye Ltd revealed their Goodfella’s Stonebaked Thin Garlic Bread contains milk which wasn’t mentioned on the label, putting those with allergies in danger.

In a statement, the FSA said: ‘The garlic bread has been mispacked with a garlic bread that contains cheese.

‘This means the product is a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to milk or milk constituents.’

The batch code of the affected food is 5020, with a best-before date of December 2025.

If your food was affected, do not eat it – instead, Birds Eye has asked customers to return the packaging to the shop where it was bought for a refund.

Customers can also take a picture of the packaging, showing the batch code, and send it to Birds Eye with their name, address and contact details on their contact page.

Tesco also issued a recent recall over a ‘serious allergy risk’.

The supermarket has had to pull a batch of its own brand cupcakes from the shelves because the label doesn’t declare soya as an ingredient.

Soya is a very widely used ingredient in processed food, and soya flour is widely used in baking products like bread and cakes.

This poses a risk to anyone with an allergy to soya if they pick up the tray of ‘Tesco 18 Cupcakes’.

The affected cakes have a batch code of 24026 and are best before February 27, 2024.

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