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Plastic in this food: the discovery in supermarkets

Food recall

The product of a well-known brand has just been recalled from supermarkets. The risk is that some batches are contaminated with plastic fragments. This is what is reported by a document of the Ministry of Health released on 1 June this year. In the spotlight a food productorganic strawberry jam JAM STRAWBERRY of the Swedish giant IKEA.

IKEA strawberry jam, risk of plastic fragments

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IKEA strawberry jam (IKEA photo)

Not just furniture, for the uninitiated, the Swedish low-cost furniture giant IKEA also has a network of small ones supermarkets inside. And this is where the alarm goes off for a product, the subject of a recall of the Ministry of Health due to the possible presence of plastic fragments inside. Under alarm lots with expiration dates 2023-03-01, 2023-03-02, 2023-03-03 and 2023-03-28.

The recommendation is that of do not consume the product SYLT JORDGUBB 400 g organic strawberry jam if it shows the expiry dates in question and return it to the point of sale to obtain a refund, even in the absence of a receipt.

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It is not the first time that the Swedish furniture giant IKEA is the protagonist of withdrawals and recall from the market of some of its products. Most of the time it comes to furniture or objects that have defects that may represent a potential danger to the customer. This is the case of a baby bib retired in 2019 because the closure button posed a choking hazard if it came off.

It is always of the 2022, precisely in February, the recall of an IKEA food product for reasons similar to those of the recall of strawberry jam a few days ago. It is about the HUVUDROLL frozen vegetarian meatballs of 1000 g with expiration date 26-10-2022. The alarm is always for the risk of pieces of plastic inside of.

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The explanation given in February explained the likely plastic contamination with one broken production line. For the organic strawberry jam IKEA reports on his site that this comes from the broken trays used for the collection of strawberries used in the jam.

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