Belgium pulls extra Haagen-Dazs ice-creams from sale

Belgium on Tuesday prolonged an order to recall sure Haagen-Dazs ice-creams from sale after the invention of traces of a chemical linked to most cancers, resembling lymphoma and leukemia.

The transfer was triggered by an EU meals security alert and Spain and France have additionally issued remembers of a number of Haagen-Dazs merchandise.

After already recalling 10 merchandise final Friday, the Belgian nationwide meals well being company added seven extra Haagen-Dazs merchandise to the checklist on Tuesday.

The newest transfer considerations tubs and minicups made by Haagen-Dazs, a model owned by US producer Common Mills, with use-by dates of between March and April 2023, with flavours together with Vanilla, Belgian Chocolate, Macadamia Nut Brittle and Pralines & Cream.

Clients who had purchased Haagen-Dazs merchandise affected by the remembers had been advised to not eat them, destroy them and to contact Common Mills for a refund.

The alert was relayed on the EU’s Fast Alert System for Meals and Feed system on the request of France, which final month detected 2-Chloroethanol in checks on some Haagen-Dazs merchandise, triggering the preliminary recall.

2-Chloroethanol is a compound present in ethylene oxide (ETO), a carcinogenic chemical used as a pesticide and cleansing chemical, and has properties that injury DNA.

Common Mills mentioned final week that “hint ranges of ETO may be sourced to at least one ingredient (vanilla extract) offered by certainly one of our suppliers”.

Outdoors the EU, Brazil’s ANVISA well being monitoring company final month issued its personal alert over vanilla Haagen-Dazs merchandise imported from France.

Regardless of its title, Haagen-Dazs doesn’t have Nordic origins. It was based by a Polish-Jewish couple in New York who gave it a model they thought sounded Danish.

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