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Sprinkles: Leeds Get Baked bakery bins best-seller in topping row | |
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Rich Myers said he would have to stop selling his "best-selling" raspberry glazed donut cookies | Rich Myers said he would have to stop selling his "best-selling" raspberry glazed donut cookies |
A bakery has had to stop producing its bestselling biscuit after officials found the treats were topped with illegal sprinkles. | |
Get Baked in Leeds withdrew its raspberry glazed donut cookies, which contained a banned food colouring. | |
Owner Rich Myers branded the decision "ridiculous" and said alternative sprinkles on the market were "rubbish". | |
West Yorkshire Trading Standards said the imported decoration had fallen foul of UK regulations. | |
Mr Myers said: "I know it sounds like a small thing but it is a big deal for my business - we used them a lot. | Mr Myers said: "I know it sounds like a small thing but it is a big deal for my business - we used them a lot. |
"Our best-selling cookie, we're not going to be able to sell them anymore. For a small independent business that only has a small menu, it's a problem." | "Our best-selling cookie, we're not going to be able to sell them anymore. For a small independent business that only has a small menu, it's a problem." |
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Trading Standards said the E127 food colouring, also know as Erythrosine, is only approved for use in the UK and EU in cocktail cherries and candied cherries. | |
The ingredient has been linked to problems with hyperactivity in children and effects on their mood and behaviour. | |
"[The inspector] said they'd had reports of us using illegal sprinkles and I actually laughed by mistake, then realised he was being serious," Mr Myers said. | "[The inspector] said they'd had reports of us using illegal sprinkles and I actually laughed by mistake, then realised he was being serious," Mr Myers said. |
"To whoever reported us to Trading Standards, all I have to say is: 'Dear Lord, what a sad little life Jane'." | |
He said he sourced the US-made cake toppers from a UK-based wholesaler, adding that other products on the market were not as good. | He said he sourced the US-made cake toppers from a UK-based wholesaler, adding that other products on the market were not as good. |
"British sprinkles are rubbish," he said. | "British sprinkles are rubbish," he said. |
"They run and aren't bake-stable. The colours aren't vibrant and they just don't look very good." | |
The bakery uses the decorations on a number of products | |
Mr Myers' plight was recognised by two former Great British Bake Off contestants, who sympathised with his desire to obtain suitable ingredients. | |
Edd Kimber, 2010 winner, agreed supermarket sprinkles were "not as good". | |
"It is what he's designing his product around, so I feel his pain," he added. | |
Fellow contestant Hermine Dossou, who was a semi-finalist in the 2020 show, called on sprinkle makers in the UK to "step up their game". | |
"I get where Trading Standards is coming from, but it comes back to the everything in moderation argument," she said. | |
A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Trading Standards said: "We can confirm that we have advised the business concerned the use of E127 is not permitted in this type of confectionery item. | A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Trading Standards said: "We can confirm that we have advised the business concerned the use of E127 is not permitted in this type of confectionery item. |
"We stand by this advice and would urge all food business operators, when seeking to use imported foods containing additives, to check that they are permitted for use in the UK." | "We stand by this advice and would urge all food business operators, when seeking to use imported foods containing additives, to check that they are permitted for use in the UK." |
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