Allergen Recall: Sainsbury’s Fruit & Honey Seed Mix

Allergen Recall: Sainsbury's Fruit & Honey Seed Mix

Sainsbury's Fruit & Honey Seed Mix

Some packs of Sainsbury's Fruit & Honey Seed Mix contain almonds and cashews, making them a serious health hazard to those with an allergy to nuts.

Serious allergies can lead to anaphylactic shock, which is deadly if immediate treatment is not given...

Severe Food Allergy

A food allergy is caused when the body mistakenly creates the antibody Immunoglobulin E (IgE) as a reaction to certain foods (such as nuts), or other allergens such as wasp or bee stings, medication (like penicillin) or latex. This triggers a severe immune response, releasing large amounts of histamines and other substances in the body, which can lead to local reactions, like vomiting and diarrhoea, itching or swelling of the skin, sneezing, wheezing and coughing. When the reaction becomes systemic (affecting the whole body), this turns into anaphylaxis, also called anaphylactic shock, which is a life threatening condition and can kill the person within minutes if immediate treatment is not given.

Nuts and Peanuts

If you'd like to know more about the difference between nuts and peanuts, click here.

The 14 Allergens

If you'd like to know more about the 14 allergens recognised under UK/EU law, click here.

Sainsbury's Fruit & Honey Seed Mix Recall

Product	Pack Size	Best Before	SKU Number	Allergens
by Sainsbury’s Fruit & Honey Seed Mix	35g	September 2018	07614567	Nuts (almonds and cashews)

To read the Food Standards Agency's recall notice, click here. To see Sainsbury's recall notice on the Food Standards Agency's website, click here. It appears they have deleted the web page that mentioned their recalls on their own website...

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What is the difference between nuts and peanuts?

This is a question we get asked a lot on our courses. When we talk about nuts, we mean tree nuts; i.e., nuts that grow on trees - like all those almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, pecans and walnuts

Peanuts

Peanuts are also called groundnuts and it is this name that clearly shows the difference. Peanuts grow in the ground, and are actually part of the beans and peas family. But though they are strictly speaking a legume, they are similar in taste and nutritional contents that they are often considered a nut for culinary purposes and called as such in the English language.

The 14 Allergens

There are 14 major allergens that need to be clearly highlighted on the packaging of any food that contains it. If the allergen is sold in a different way, for instance as loose foods or cooked into a meal, information on what contains any of these 14 allergens must be easily available.

The 14 recognised food allergens in the UK

The Law

From December 13, 2014, all food businesses have to provide this information on these 14 allergens, wherever they might be present in foods.
To read and/or download the EU Food Information for Consumers Regulation Allergen Provisions, click here.
Additional guidance given by the Food Standards Agency can be found here.
Guidance on Food Allergen Management for Food Manufacturers can be found here.
The Food Standards Agency also has a specific leaflet to help with allergen information for loose foods.
They also provide other information, including a handy allergen chart for caterers.

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