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By Carina Perkins2021-05-27T14:15:00+01:00
Allergen-related recalls hit a five-year peak in 2018/19. So what has happened over the past year, as supply chains have battled to cope with the Covid crisis? We analysed FSA data to find out for Allergy Awareness Week (24-30 May 2021).
It was, on reflection, peanuts compared to the pandemic that was about to engulf us. But in early 2020, before Covid-19 hit the headlines, UK supermarkets were grappling with a pesto crisis.
It began in December 2019, when supplier Saclà recalled 19 branded and own-label pesto SKUs amid fears they may contain traces of peanut. By January, Tesco and Sainsbury’s, which shared an unnamed ingredients supplier with Saclà, had followed suit with recalls on their Own-Label pesto.
Almost five years after the death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, Natasha’s Law comes into force this October. So is the industry ready?
It’s been almost five years since Natasha Ednan-Laperouse collapsed and died after eating a Pret a Manger baguette. The teenager went into cardiac arrest on a British Airways flight in July 2016 after suffering a major allergic reaction to sesame, which wasn’t declared on the packaging.
The inquest into her death in 2018 exposed a major loophole in UK food labelling law, which meant retailers such as Pret making food fresh on their own premises didn’t have to provide allergen information on the packaging. “In my opinion there is a risk that future deaths could occur unless action is taken,” warned the coroner, Dr Séan Cummings, at the time.
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