An urgent alert has been announced that savoury pastries are being recalled by major supermarkets due to a contamination among the food.
Supermarkets such as Sainsburys, Asda, and Aldi have been a part of the recalling and are removing any products that have been supplied by The Compleat Food Group. It has been stated by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) that the savoury pastries ‘may contain small pieces of metal and plastic, making them unsafe to eat.’
The Compleat Food Group are one of the leading suppliers in the UK. Home to brands such as Wall’s Pastry, Squeaky Bean, Wrights, and Pork Farms.
Some of the products include Asda’s chicken tikka slices and steak slices. As well as Asda’s snack pork sausage rolls, cheese and onion rolls, salt and pepper chilli chicken slices, pork and apple sausage rolls, pesto, and mozzarella pinwheels, and deep filed chicken and gravy puff pastry pie.
Sainsburys and Aldi have additionally recalled their sausage rolls, and cheese and onion rolls.
The Food Standard Agency (FSA) have said: “if you have brought any of the above products do not eat them. Instead, return them to the store where they were bought for a full refund.”
An internal investigation has been taken which identified the area of contamination. The affected areas have now been shut down and The Compleat Food Group have stated that operations are back to normal.
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