Food Recall: Essential Waitrose & Partners Salted Butter

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UK/London: Waitrose & Partners, a London, England establishment and a subsidiary of the John Lewis Partnership of Bracknell, Berkshire recalls certain batch/lots of Essential Waitrose & Partners Salted Dairy Butter from the British marketplace due to suspected clothing fragment contamination and consequential risks of choking, oral injury, internal ingestion, GI tract laceration damage, bowel obstruction/perforation and sepsis, all serious health and safety hazards.

FSA: https://tinyurl.com/2jafz8ku

Direct link: https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/alert/fsa-prin-18-2024

Additional information:
The UK Food Standards Agency (“FSA”) reports the following Dairy products are subject to recall:

• Essential Waitrose & Partners Salted Dairy Butter, sold in 500 gram packages with a best-before date of 19 June 2024

==> No barcodes, EANs, item numbers, manufacturing date codes, production dates, expiry dates, regulatory approval designations, registration numbers, agency approval designations or other identification numbers were listed with this recall notification.

Please consult the photograph above for details of the food’s packaging, design and retail presentation.

According to the FSA, Waitrose & Partners has recalled certain batch/lots of Essential Waitrose & Partners Salted Dairy Butter products from the British marketplace due to suspected clothing fragment contamination. As a direct result of this suspected defect, you should neither serve nor consume the recalled Dairy products identified above.

In this case, this recall was initiated after some packages of Essential Waitrose & Partners Salted Dairy Butter were found to possibly contain pieces of blue cloth. The possible presence of cloth makes the product unsafe to eat.

In general, if bone, glass, metal, plastic, cloth and/or rubber fragments are ingested, they could cut the mouth, stomach or other parts of the GI tract, cause intestinal perforation or serious infection and possibly require surgical intervention for their safe removal.

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==> Never depend on your senses of sight, smell, taste or touch to confirm food poisoning, adulteration or contamination. If in doubt about the safety of any food, return it to your retailer for refund or toss it out in your household garbage, making sure neither small children nor household pets can access the suspect food.

Proposed Remedy:
If you believe you have purchased or have in your possession any of the recalled Essential Waitrose & Partners Salted Dairy Butter products, please do not consume them directly nor use them as an ingredient in another dish or preparation. Instead, return the Dairy products to the store where you purchased it for a full refund.

==> If you have a medical emergency, please contact 9-9-9, your closest hospital A&E or emergency centre equipped to properly treat choking, oral injury, internal ingestion, GI tract laceration damage, bowel obstruction/perforation and sepsis.

If you have any further questions, comments or complaints about this recall, please contact Waitrose & Partners at 0800 188 884, option 4, during normal business hours British Standard Time, Monday to Friday.

==> To see other recalls and notifications caused by contaminated, adulterated or mislabeled Salted Dairy Butter products, please search for “butter” or more generically, “dairy” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

==> To see other recalls and notifications caused by suspected Cloth Fragment contamination, please search for “cloth” or more generically, “fragment” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

==> To see other recalls and notifications concerning Choking hazards, please search for “Choking” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

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==> To see other recalls and notifications concerning Sepsis hazards, please search for “sepsis” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

==> To see other recalls and notifications for products manufactured, marketed and/or sold by Waitrose & Partners, please search for “Waitrose” using the Search Box at the top of this page.

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More information about this recall:
FSA Ref: FSA-PRIN-18-2024
Recalls Direct RIN: 18348-2024
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