Morrisons forced to recall honey and mustard dressing over fears people won't know it has mustard in it

Mustard the menace

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Morrisons has been forced to recall its honey and mustard dressing because the label doesn’t clearly state that it contains egg and mustard.

The Food Standards Agency has stated that the Morrisons Eat Smart Honey & Mustard Dressing poses a risk to people who have either egg or mustard allergies.

Customers who have bought the product have been advised to contact allergy support organisations.

Rather than simply remove the dressing from the supermarket shelves, Morrisons has had to ask their customers to return the product due to the aforementioned health concerns.

“Morrisons is recalling Eat Smart COUNTED Honey & Mustard Dressing because it contains egg and mustard which is not mentioned on the label,” stated the FSA.

“This means the product poses a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to egg and/or an allergy to mustard.”

In cases such as this when there is a food allergy risk, the FSA will then send out an Allergy Alert.

People can subscribe to allergy alerts by email or text, so that any time a product is classified as a risk for people with allergies you’ll be immediately notified.

Although the honey and mustard dressing was recalled for failure to mention that it contained both egg and mustard, some people are slightly baffled by the announcement.

“Don’t you just hate it when you buy a jar of mustard and you find out that it contains mustard,” one Twitter user wrote.

This isn’t the first time in recent months that the FSA has issued allergy alerts after food products were incorrectly labelled.

In December last year, cakes sold by Ridiculously Rich by Alana were recalled for only listing some out of a number of allergens correctly on the labels.

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At the beginning of October last year, Costcutter was instructed to recall their Independent Sliced Chorizo because it wasn’t specified that the product contained milk.