Walkers Recalls Batch Of Wotsits, UK

Main Category: Nutrition / Diet
Also Included In: Allergy
Article Date: 16 Apr 2007 - 0:00 PDT

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Walkers is recalling a batch of Wotsits because of a packaging error that means that some packs of Really Cheesy Flavour Wotsits wrongly contain Flamin' Hot flavouring. Due to this error, these packs wrongly contain wheat and soya and so are not safe for people who are intolerant of these allergens or are on a coeliac diet. The Food Standards Agency has issued an Allergy Alert.

Product affected

-- Walkers Wotsits: Really Cheesy Flavour
-- Best before date 23 June 2007 Code: GBC 503 082

that are contained within:

-- Walkers Wotsits: 12 Pack Variety Multipack
-- Best before date: 16 June 2007 Code: GBC 9XX 082

Only this batch of packs within these multipacks are affected. No other Walkers products are affected.

If you have bought any of the affected products and cannot eat them, you can return them for a full refund to: Consumer Care Team, Walkers Snack Foods Limited, Freepost MID21030, Leicester LE4 5ZY.

Allergy alerts (UK)

Sometimes foods have to be withdrawn or recalled if there is a risk to consumers because the allergy labelling is missing or incorrect or if there is any other food allergy risk.

In such situations the Agency will issue an Allergy Alert. It is also possible to subscribe to an email alert system to receive automatic messages whenever Allergy Alerts are issued.

Subscribing is a two-stage process. First of all, click on the link below. Click 'Subscribe' and insert your email address before submitting your request. Then we'll send you an email asking you to confirm by clicking on a link. This is to protect you against getting unwanted emails.
www.food.gov.uk/subscribe

If you no longer wish to subscribe to email alerts, simply repeat the process but click on 'Unsubscribe' instead. Again, we'll send you an email asking you to confirm the request. This is to prevent you being unsubscribed by someone else.

You can get details of all the latest allergy alerts as soon as they're issued by getting the details sent as a SMS text message direct to your mobile phone.

To sign up to this free service, simply send the text message 'START ALLERGY' to the number 62372. To unsubscribe, just text 'STOP ALLERGY' to the same number.

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