Tesco has urgently recalled 2 cocoa bars and person issued a 'do not eat' warning.
The supermarket concatenation is pulling its own own-brand Tesco Nutty Nougat Caramel Chocolate Bars Multipack and Tesco Dreamy Caramel Chocolate Bars Multipack from the shelves.
The saccharine treats incorporate peanuts which are not mentioned connected the label.
In a connection Tesco told MailOnline: 'We are recalling circumstantial day codes of our Tesco Nutty Nougat Caramel Chocolate Bars Multipack 6 X 40g and Tesco Dreamy Caramel Chocolate Bars Multipack 6 X 40g.
'Due to a mispack, determination is simply a hazard of peanuts not being declared arsenic an constituent successful the product. This poses a imaginable wellness hazard for anyone with an allergy to peanuts.'
The Government's Food Standards Agency echoed the Tesco warning. In a connection they said: 'If you person bought the products bash not devour them. Instead, instrumentality them to immoderate Tesco store for a afloat refund.
Tesco said successful a connection that the cocoa bars are a 'possible wellness hazard for anyone with an allergy to peanuts' (stock image)
The connection added: 'The institution has besides issued a callback announcement to its customers. These notices explicate to customers wherefore the merchandise is being recalled and archer them what to bash if they person bought the product.'
People who are allergic to nuts and travel into interaction with immoderate tin spell into anaphylactic shock.
In utmost cases, and without urgent treatment, their throats could balloon and they mightiness choke to death.
Their immune strategy starts to collapse, humor unit drops and their airway tin tighten truthful they can't respire and suffer consciousness.
Less terrible reactions see hives, eczema oregon swelling and rashes connected the skin, runny chemoreceptor and sneezing, reddish oregon watery eyes, tummy pain, nausea, vomiting oregon diarrhoea.
The Anaphylaxis Campaign, which helps sufferers, said 'Anaphylaxis is simply a terrible and perchance life-threatening allergic absorption affecting much than 1 assemblage strategy specified arsenic the airways, heart, circulation, gut and skin.
'Symptoms tin commencement wrong seconds oregon minutes of vulnerability to the nutrient oregon substance you are allergic to and usually volition advancement rapidly. On uncommon occasions determination whitethorn beryllium a hold successful the onset of a fewer hours.
'The communal causes see foods specified arsenic peanuts, histrion nuts, milk, eggs, shellfish, fish, sesame seeds and kiwi fruit, though galore different foods person been known to trigger anaphylaxis.
'There whitethorn besides beryllium a melodramatic autumn successful humor unit (anaphylactic shock). The idiosyncratic whitethorn go anemic and floppy and whitethorn person a consciousness of thing unspeakable happening.
'This whitethorn pb to collapse, unconsciousness and - connected uncommon occasions - death.'
The affected Tesco Nutty Nougat Caramel Chocolate Bars person a champion earlier of February 28 2025 and the affected Dreamy Caramel Chocolate Bars person a champion earlier of betwixt January 31 2025 and February 28 2025.
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