Lidl is urgently recalling products as they contain various allergens which are not legible on the packaging as the ingredients are not written in English.
Labelling blunders have caused the German supermarket to issue an urgent recall through the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
If you have purchased these products, you are urged to return them immediately and you will receive a full refund.
Worryingly for shoppers, this means the products are a possible health risk as warnings were not displayed properly on the packaging of some products.
West London news
The products affected are
Deluxe Drinking Chocolate Sticks - Fine Dark Chocolate contains soya, making it a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy to soya.
Deluxe Drinking Chocolate Sticks - Fine Hazelnut contains milk, nuts and soya, making it a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to milk or milk constituents, and/or an allergy to nuts and/or an allergy to soya.
Deluxe Drinking Chocolate Sticks - With Speculoos contains milk, wheat and soya, making it a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to milk or milk constituents, and/or an allergy or intolerance to wheat or gluten and/or an allergy to soya.
Deluxe Drinking Chocolate Sticks - Fine White Chocolate contains milk and soya, making it a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to milk or milk constituents, and/or an allergy to soya.
If you have bought any of the above products and have allergies or intolerances to the following, do not eat them:
- an allergy to soya
- and/or an allergy to nuts
- and/or an allergy or intolerance to milk or milk constituents
- and/or an allergy or intolerance to wheat or gluten
Please return the product to the store from where it was bought for a full refund.
Product details
Product: Deluxe Drinking Chocolate Sticks - Fine Dark Chocolate (60g)
Best before: 28.8.18
Allergens present: Soya
Product: Deluxe Drinking Chocolate Sticks - Fine Hazelnut (60g)
Best before: 28.8.18
Allergens present: Milk, Hazelnut, Soya
Product: Deluxe Drinking Chocolate Sticks - With Speculoos (60g)
Best before: 28.8.18
Allergens present: Milk, Wheat, Soya
Product: Deluxe Drinking Chocolate Sticks - Fine White Chocolate (60g)
Best before: 28.8.18
Allergens present: Milk, Soya
Snacking pockets
The budget retailer is also recalling Alesto Snacking Pockets because the labelling is not in English.
This means the product is a possible health risk for anyone who has an allergy to nuts and/or a sensitivity to sulphite dioxide/sulphites.
The company has also issued a point-of-sale notice to its customers.
These notices explain to customers why the product is/products are being recalled and tell them what to do if they have bought the product.
If you have bought any of the above product and have an allergy to either nuts and/or sulphur dioxide do not eat it.
Instead return them to the store from where they were bought for a full refund.
These products contain cashew nuts, almond, hazelnuts and sulphur dioxide.
Product details
Product: Alesto – Summertime Strawberry & Nut (Seriously Berry)
Pack size: 25g
Allergen: Cashew nuts
Product: Alesto – Crunchy Seed & Nut
Pack size: 25g
Allergen: Cashew nuts, almonds
Product: Alesto – Golden Fruit & Nut
Pack size: 25g
Allergen: Sulphur dioxide, hazelnuts
No other Lidl Alesto Snacking pockets products are known to be affected the Birmingham Mail reports .
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