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Morrisons recalls chicken pie over fish mix-up | Morrisons recalls chicken pie over fish mix-up |
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Morrisons is recalling its "Traditional Chicken and Mushroom Pie" from sale because a small number of packs do not contain that pie, but a fish pie. | Morrisons is recalling its "Traditional Chicken and Mushroom Pie" from sale because a small number of packs do not contain that pie, but a fish pie. |
The fish pie contains fish and mustard which are not mentioned on the label. | The fish pie contains fish and mustard which are not mentioned on the label. |
As a result, the Food Standards Agency says the supermarket's pies are a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy to mustard and/or fish. | |
It says that those bought in error should be returned to the store from where they were bought. | It says that those bought in error should be returned to the store from where they were bought. |
The product at the heart of the mix-up is the Morrisons "Traditional Chicken & Mushroom Pie" in the 400g packs, with a use-by date of 4 December 2017. | The product at the heart of the mix-up is the Morrisons "Traditional Chicken & Mushroom Pie" in the 400g packs, with a use-by date of 4 December 2017. |
Morrisons, the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain, has apologised for the error and is also contacting allergy support organisations, which will tell their members about the recall. | |
Mustard allergies are rare in the UK, although more common in Spain and France. The effects for those with a mustard intolerance are anaphylactic shock, more commonly provoked by peanuts. | |
Notices explaining why the pies are being withdrawn are being placed in Morrisons' stores. No other Morrisons products are known to be affected. | |
The FSA issues food and allergy alerts whenever necessary - typically several a week. The more serious reasons include finding pieces of plastic in a food stuff, or the presence of health-threatening bacteria, such as botulinum, Listeria or Campylobacter. | |
But in a recent inversion of the Morrisons mishap, the FSA issued a recall alert in September on behalf of rival supermarket Asda, which had found that some pies labelled as fish pies were in fact chicken and bacon ones, containing mustard. |