The Anonymous Widower

Allergy Alerts

Yesterday, I was informed that Marks and Spencer had made a mistake with one of their gluten-free products. This is the gist of the problem.

Marks & Spencer has withdrawn some of its own-brand Gluten Free Rich Fruit Cake, because the product contains wheat flour. The product label incorrectly mentions that the product is ‘made without wheat’ and is ‘gluten free’. This makes the product a possible health risk to anyone who is gluten intolerant or has an allergy to or intolerance of wheat. The Agency has issued an Allergy Alert.

The full text of the message is on this web page at the Food Standards Agency.

There apparently is a syste of allergy alerts that you can subscribe to here.

Obviously, the system works, but in these days of austerity is it done as efficiently as it can be?

October 22, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Food | Coeliac/Gluten-Free