Popular Marks and Spencer food items recalled due to salmonella

An urgent ‘do not eat’ informing has been placed connected batches of Marks and Spencer’s breaded chickenhearted products implicit fears they incorporate salmonella.

The callback affects the supermarket’s Crispy Southern Fried Chicken Burgers and Chicken Kyivs being sold successful Northern Ireland.

It comes aft the bacteria – which tin pb to life-threatening infections successful utmost circumstances – was recovered successful the foods during regular testing.

In a connection announcing the callback connected Friday, the supermarket said: ‘Please bash not devour these products.

‘Any lawsuit successful possession of these products tin instrumentality them to their nearest store wherever they volition beryllium fixed a afloat refund.’

It explained that ‘no different products are affected’.

‘We apologise to our customers for immoderate inconvenience caused,’ it added.

The callback relates to Crispy Southern Fried Chicken Burger products with usage by dates of January 26, January 30, January 31 and February 1 2025.

Its 2 Chicken Kyivs with the usage by day of January 26 2025 should besides beryllium returned.

The concatenation has since placed notices astatine points of merchantability to alert shoppers and is urging customers to cheque their products against the list.

Regulator the Food Standards Agency (FSA) shared quality of the urgent recall.

In a statement, it said: ‘These batches of Marks and Spencer Crispy Southern Fried Chicken Burger and 2 Chicken Kyivs are being recalled owed to the imaginable beingness of salmonella.

‘People infected with salmonella typically make symptoms betwixt 12 and 36 hours aft infection, but this tin scope betwixt six and 72 hours.

‘The astir communal grounds is diarrhoea, which tin sometimes beryllium bloody. Other symptoms whitethorn see fever, headache and abdominal cramps.

‘The unwellness usually lasts 4 to 7 days. Diarrhoea tin occasionally beryllium terrible capable to necessitate infirmary admission.

‘The elderly, infants, and those with impaired immune systems are much apt to person a terrible illness.’

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