Several products have been urgently recalled from shops and supermarkets across Ireland in recent days over food safety fears.
Among the items Irish consumers are being urged to bin are chocolate, biscuits, ice cream and pies.
The items are sold at retailers such as Dunnes Stores, Tesco and Lidl.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland warned that people are at risk of contracting salmonella if they eat certain products, while others were found to contain metal pieces.
The impacted products are being taken off shelves and Irish shoppers are urged not to consume the recalled items.
Here are all the product recalls currently in place:
Kinder chocolates
Multiple recalls have been issued for Kinder products over salmonella fears.
There have been 15 cases identified in Ireland, primarily in children, over the last ten days with some even needing hospital treatment.
All of the products which have been recalled, as well as the best before dates, are:
- Kinder Surprise (20g): All dates up to and including 04 January 2023
- Kinder Surprise (20g x 3 pack): All dates up to and including 04 January 2023
- Kinder Surprise (100g): All dates up to and including 21 August 2022
- Kinder Mini eggs (75g): All dates up to and including 21 August 2022
- Kinder Egg Hunt Kit (150g): All dates up to and including 21 August 2022
- Kinder Schokobons (70g, 200g and 320g): All dates up to and including 04 January 2023
Digestive biscuits
Tesco is recalling the above batch of Tesco Free From Digestive Biscuits due to the possible presence of small metal pieces.
The pack size is 160g while they have a best before date of March 2023.
Mars ice cream
A batch of Mars Bounty Ice Cream bars is being recalled due to the presence of the unauthorised pesticide ethylene oxide.
Ethylene oxide is a pesticide that is not permitted for use in foods sold in the EU but is approved for use by other countries outside the EU.
The FSAI says that although the consumption of the contaminated product does not pose an acute risk to health, there is an increased risk if there is continued consumption of ethylene oxide in contaminated food over a long period of time.
Therefore, exposure to ethylene oxide needs to be minimised and point-of-sale recall notices will be displayed in stores supplied with the implicated batch.
The recalled items have a batch code 037C3DOE0 and best before date of 31/08/2022.
Chicken pie
Baxters Food Group Ltd. is recalling the above batch of Fray Bentos Just Chicken Pie due to the possible presence of small pieces of plastic.
The products have a pack size of 425g with the batch code L079T (with time code between 06:00 - 08:22) and best before date of 09/2023.
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