More products containing mustard that could be contaminated with peanut have been recalled.
The Food Standards Agency issued another recall update, adding products from TGI and Slimming World to the extensive list, found here.
Last month (September 2024), products including sandwiches supplied to convenience stores were recalled due to concerns over the presence of undisclosed peanut.
An ingredients supplier mentioned by the Food Standards Agency, FSG Ingredients, has responded to the recalls, stating it has introduced “a comprehensive testing programme with support from industry accredited laboratory partners, spanning products and premises, as well as an investigation of supply chains”. It also confirmed that it is changing its supply chain to help ensure a secure supply chain.
A spokesperson for FGS Ingredients said:
“Rigorous testing conducted to date of mustard supplied to us from India has produced some positive but inconsistent traces of peanut residue in limited pockets of the raw mustard product but not across entire batches. This presence of peanut has been highly intermittent and in isolated pockets, rather than being homologous throughout the batches. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) Incidents and Resilience Unit has received information from its counterparts in India that now confirms the issue originated at agricultural level in India.
“Our supplier from India is a fourth generation and long-term family supplier that has never previously had a nut or peanut issue with its raw ingredients, however FGS Ingredients has stopped taking any supplies from them and we are now sourcing mustard originating from farms in Canada.”
The spokesperson added that it is advising manufacturers affected to recall any potentially contaminated products.
“In parallel with the testing and investigation programme, we have advised all customers to stop using the Indian-sourced mustard supplied by us and to return any unused product. Customers have, in turn, been proactive in notifying their customers of the issue up to and including the manufacturers of consumer products. This has resulted in numerous updates from the FSA as investigations along the supply chain revealed additional consumer products containing the affected mustard as an ingredient. This has necessitated a growing list of finished products being removed from sale by their manufacturers to ensure that together we do everything to protect consumer health.”
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