{"id":324829,"date":"2025-08-07T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/324829\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:30:11","slug":"urgent-recall-issued-for-popular-breakfast-food-over-pieces-of-metal-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/324829\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent recall issued for popular breakfast food over \u2018pieces of metal&#8217; | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nut butter product sold by <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Ocado\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ocado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ocado<\/a> has been urgently <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Food recall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/food-recall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recalled<\/a> over concerns that it may contain pieces of metal. Daylesford Organic took action over Cacao Double Nut Butter \u201cbecause of a physical contamination risk in the product\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A notice added: \u201cThis product may contain metal ball bearings which present a choking hazard and makes it unsafe to eat.\u201d Metal ball bearings can present a choking risk, especially for children, if accidentally swallowed or inhaled.<\/p>\n<p>Some people may also develop skin irritation or <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Allergy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/allergy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allergic<\/a> reactions to metals such as nickel which are sometimes used in ball bearings.<\/p>\n<p>Ball bearings used in machinery can also create fine dust or powder which can cause respiratory issues when inhaled.<\/p>\n<p>The recall applies to 230g jars of the nut butter with the batch code 230625 and a best before date of February 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The Food Standards Agency advised customers: \u201cIf you have bought the above product do not eat it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, return it to the store from where it was bought for a full refund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It follows a similar recall issued by <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Lidl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/lidl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lidl GB<\/a> in June for Harvest Basket Hash Browns.<\/p>\n<p>Customers were warned the potato product should not be eaten \u201cdue to the potential presence of foreign bodies (metal) which may present a choking hazard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nut butter product sold by Ocado has been urgently recalled over concerns that it may contain pieces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,117293,117289,840,117291,117292,117290,117288,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-324829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cacao-double-nut-butter","10":"tag-daylesford-organic","11":"tag-food-recall","12":"tag-metal-contamination","13":"tag-metal-pieces","14":"tag-nut-butter-recall","15":"tag-ocado","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114986786729048389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}