Food Recall: Hotel Chocolat Choose Your Poison Chocolate

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UK/London: Hotel Chocolat, a Royston, Hertfordshire establishment, recalls certain batch/lots of Hotel Chocolat branded Choose Your Poison Chocolate products from the British marketplace due to suspected glass 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 requiring immediate medical intervention to minimize pain and suffering as well as prevent life-altering injury or death.

FSA: https://rb.gy/mov57

Direct link: https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/alert/fsa-prin-35-2023

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

• Hotel Chocolat Choose Your Poison, sold in 160 gram packages with a batch/lot number designation of 23205, 23206 or 23207 and a best-before date of January 2024

==> No barcodes, EANs, item numbers, best-before date codes, manufacturing date codes, production 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, Hotel Chocolat has recalled certain batch/lots of Hotel Chocolat branded Choose Your Poison Chocolate products from the British marketplace due to suspected glass fragment contamination. As a direct result of this suspected defect, you should neither serve nor consume the recalled Confectionery products identified above.

In general, if bone, glass, metal, plastic 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.

==> 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 Hotel Chocolat branded Choose Your Poison Chocolate products, please do not consume them directly nor use them as an ingredient in another dish or preparation. Instead, return the Chocolate 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 glass fragment contamination and consequential risks of choking, oral injury, internal ingestion, GI tract laceration damage, bowel obstruction/perforation and/or sepsis.

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If you have any further questions, comments or complaints about this recall, please contact Hotel Chocolat at 03444 93 23 23 from 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM British Standard Time, Monday to Friday, from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM BST on Saturday and from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM BST on Sunday. You can also reach the company on the Web at https://www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/help/contact-us or by e-mail at help@hotelchocolat.com.

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

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

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More information about this recall:
FSA Ref: FSA-PRIN-35-2023
Recalls Direct RIN: 17624-2023
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