Food Standards Agency
Thursday 24 July 2008
Safer food better business banner
AZ-Directory
What's NewRSS
What is RSS?Friday 9 May 2008
Food Alert For Information on a green background
Waitrose has recalled organic eggs from one farm because they may be contaminated with lead. The Agency has issued a Food Alert for Information.
Waitrose has withdrawn all of the affected products, which include all date codes up to and including 21 May. Point-of-sale notices will be displayed in stores nationwide, explaining which eggs have been recalled and advising customers what to do if they have purchased any of the product.
The products recalled are:
Product sizes:
Medium (6 egg and 12 egg packs)
Large (6 egg packs)
Very Large (6 egg packs)
Farm Identification Code: OUK 20137
If there is a problem with a food product that means it should not be sold, then it might be 'withdrawn' (taken off the shelves) or 'recalled' (when customers are asked to return the product). Food alerts are the FSA's way of letting local authorities and consumers know about problems associated with food and, in some cases, providing details of specific action to be taken. They are issued under two categories:
You can get FSA alerts either by email or SMS text. Visit the Get Alerts page at the link below to find out how.
You can also subscribe to our Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed for food and allergy alerts. RSS is a format for distributing news content and is a simple way to keep up to date with the latest news on a website. When we publish via RSS, you can automatically get the updated content via a 'news aggregator' or 'news reader'. Our RSS feed will contain a brief summary and link back to our web content. Click on ‘What is RSS’ on the left of this page for more details.
Find out what our other sites have to offer