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The FSA issues a 'Product Withdrawal Information Notice' or a 'Product Recall Information Notice' to let local authorities and consumers know about problems associated with food. In some cases, a 'Food Alert for Action' is issued. This provides local authorities with details of specific action to be taken on behalf of consumers.

A Product Withdrawal Information Notice or a Product Recall Information Notice is issued where a solution to the problem has been put in place – the product has been, or is being, withdrawn from sale or recalled from consumers, for example. A Food Alert for Action is issued where intervention by enforcement authorities is required. These notices and alerts are often issued in conjunction with a product withdrawal or recall by a manufacturer, retailer or distributor.

Details of the latest product withdrawals and recalls, including Food Alerts for Action, can be found below. Because of the Agency's openness remit, all previous notices and alerts are available. You can find them via the search box at the bottom of this page. In many cases the food issues they refer to will have been resolved.

From June 2010, the FSA changed the way it issues information about product withdrawals and recalls. Product Withdrawal Information Notices and Product Recall Information Notices replace what was known under the previous system as the ‘Food Alert for Information’.

How to get the latest information about withdrawals and recalls

By email : To receive automatic notification of new withdrawal and recall information, including Food Alerts for Action, subscribe to receive email updates .

Direct to your mobile phone : To sign up to this free service, simply send the text message 'START FOOD' to the number 62372. To unsubscribe, just text 'STOP FOOD' to the same number.

RSS feed : Click on 'What is RSS' on the left of this page for details. To subscribe, copy and paste the following URL into your 'news reader': http://www.food.gov.uk/enforcement/alerts/?view=rss

A (External) list of weekly updates of rapid alerts issued by the European Commission is available here .

Most recent food alerts

Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd recalls one batch of its own-brand Basic Tea Cakes due to possible contamination with pieces of plastic Friday 11 May 2012 Recalled from customers PepsiCo recalls Tropicana Kids Orange Juice Drink due to microbiological contamination Wednesday 2 May 2012 Recalled from customers Ella's Kitchen recalls one batch of Stage 3 Seriously Comforting Cottage Pie with a Pinch of Cinnamon due to a possible choking hazard Monday 26 March 2012 Recalled from customers Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc recalls additional date code of its own-brand cooked turkey breast due to incorrect date coding Wednesday 21 March 2012 Recalled from customers Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc recalls one date code of its own-brand cooked turkey breast due to incorrect date coding Tuesday 20 March 2012 Recalled from customers B&M Sausages withdraws a variety of meat products in Scotland due to the potential for cross-contamination Friday 2 March 2012 Withdrawn from sale Morrisons recalls one date of its own-brand Whole Nut Milk Chocolate due to possible contamination with metal Monday 27 February 2012 Recalled from customers SPAR recalls one batch of Flame Grilled Chicken Chunks due to the presence of low levels of Listeria monocytogenes Monday 27 February 2012 Recalled from customers Marks and Spencer recalls four products from its Chinese range due to incorrect date coding Thursday 9 February 2012 Recalled from customers Iceland recalls Frozen Lamb Mince 454g due to presence of salmonella Tuesday 24 January 2012 Recalled from customers Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc recalls all batches of certain smoked mackerel products due to a processing error that may result in the products being undercooked Tuesday 17 January 2012 Recalled from customers Makro recalls certain batch codes of various 'tapas' brand meat products due to high levels of listeria monocytogenes Tuesday 10 January 2012 Recalled from customers

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See also

Food Alerts: Scotland Read about Food Alerts, product withdrawals and recalls Incidents Read about how to report, respond to and prevent a food incident (External) Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) Read about the notification system on the European Commission website Regulation and legislation Working with the meat industry Find out more about the how the Agency works with the meat industry

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