If you’ve got any Asda own brand cans of baked beans in tomato sauce in your cupboard – don’t eat them.
They’ve been withdrawn due to the presence of undeclared wheat and gluten. If you have any tins of baked beans with the following codes on, return them to Asda for a refund:
Asda Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce, 215g
Best before date: end of October 2009
Production code: 7276
For more information, see the Food Standards Agency.
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Is there a penalty in England for this? I don’t know if there is one in the USA for an undeclared allergen in a food product. I know there can be a consumer penalty. (People not trusting the brand.) However, it doesn’t tend to be as severe when the allergen/contaiminate is wheat/gluten.
If it was peanuts, treenuts or almonds, there would be a huge outcry. It’s just wheat though, and those crazy’s will only get a little ill. That’s what people tend to think. It’s not like it’s peanuts, that could kill someone.
I’ll never understand that kind of thinking. It’s OK that this food product had a fraudulant label that robbed myself or my child of his or her health, height, weight, or sanity because it may be reversed if/when it is discovered?? It’s not that bad because it doesn’t kill us right away???
It is this area where the misinformation, people who lie about “wheat allergies” and just plain lack of information hurts us. If people truly knew the extent of damage done by Celiac then they would be as outraged by this type of thing as if the company said “oops, we didn’t know it but our supplier was using peanut oil to make an ingredient in this item”.
Laney
Charlotte points out that the Asda baked beans have been withdrawn because of a mislabelling of tins of ‘beans with sausages’ as ‘beans’, and not because the beans themselves are contaminated with gluten. Thanks Charlotte!
She’s quite right, and I should have spotted this before. I guess this isn’t quite so bad, because you’d certainly notice the sausages, and therefore (I hope) wouldn’t eat the contents of the tin!
Laney, I don’t know if there’s a penalty, but it would be interesting to find out. I must add it to my to-do list.