No peanut found in products, UK food supplier says after allergy alert

A nutrient institution affected by an allergy alert implicit contaminated mustard ingredients has said that nary peanuts person been detected successful its products.

Leicester-based FGS Ingredients carried retired further tests crossed its ingredients aft the Food Standards Agency (FSA) this week told radical with a peanut allergy to debar eating products containing mustard due to the fact that they whitethorn person been contaminated.

On Saturday a spokesperson for FGS Ingredients, the earthy spices supplier, said: “Samples of our ingredients are ever routinely tested earlier they permission our premises, arsenic is bully modular manufacture practice, and had shown nary reasons for concern.

“An further investigating programme conducted some wrong our ain facilities and by an off-site industry-approved autarkic outer laboratory, person not detected immoderate beingness of peanut contented oregon residue.”

Mustard ingredients tin beryllium recovered successful nutrient specified arsenic dips, sauces, salads and pre-packed sandwiches.

Such mustard products could incorporate traces of peanut, perchance causing terrible reactions for those with an allergy, the FSA said arsenic it began urgently moving with the applicable section authorities, idiosyncratic businesses and manufacture to place which products whitethorn beryllium affected.

The FSA said it had traced the contaminated mustard ingredients to a shaper successful India called GT Agro Industries and identified 1 company, FGS Ingredients Ltd, who had “supplied these ingredients for usage successful UK food”.

FGS Ingredients Ltd, past advised customers to region from merchantability products containing the contaminated mustard ingredients.

The company said peanuts are not included successful its spices oregon allowed connected its accumulation tract and it follows strict moving controls to forestall the accidental instauration of allergens.

The spokesperson added: “As a family-owned concern that was established 74 years agone and is present successful its 3rd procreation of leadership, we person grown to proudly go the main supplier of earthy spices to nutrient producers crossed the UK and to businesses internationally.

“We person ne'er antecedently been progressive successful immoderate incidental of nutrient contamination.

“Nevertheless, we proceed to enactment the FSA probe successful immoderate mode that is necessary.”