Choking hazards causes recall of sweets from Belgian retailers

Choking hazards causes recall of sweets from Belgian retailers
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The Federal Agency for Food Chain Safety (AFSCA) has decided to recall sweets from the Jelly Straws and Speshow brands sold at Belgian stores such as Carrefour and Delhaize. They stated on Saturday that these goods included prohibited ingredients that presented a risk of choking, particularly to children.

On Saturday, AFSCA announced that they had decided to recall jelly beans sold by the brands Jelly Straws and Speshow from Belgian stores.

The agency explains that these products included the prohibited additives E 407 and E 410, which by themselves "do not pose a health hazard," but "may cause a risk of choking, especially among less attentive children" as they make the sweets more solid and harder to swallow.

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As a result, the sweets have been recalled from retailers such as Carrefour and Delhaize, and any customers that have bought the  jelly beans have been instructed to return their purchased products.


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