Urgent allergy advice: mustard ingredients contaminated with peanuts
The Food Standards Agency is advising people who have a peanut allergy to avoid consuming foods that contain or may contain mustard, mustard powder or mustard flour because they may have been contaminated with peanuts.
Food businesses are responsible for establishing whether any of their food products are affected and taking steps to ensure consumers are protected, and the food they sell is safe. For more information, including product recalls and/or to see how this affects your business, please visit the Food Standards Agency website.
What does the food team do?
Our officers carry out routine visits to food businesses to check whether they are complying with food hygiene requirements. We also respond to:
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complaints about standards of hygiene at food businesses
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complaints about contaminated, unsound or unsafe food [PDF, 60Kb] [PDF, 60KB]and
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allegations of food poisoning.
We provide several other services and functions as part of our overall aim to monitor the safety of food which is produced and sold in the district. These include:
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promoting good food hygiene practice and providing training courses
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offering free advice about food safety matters
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closing down unhygienic premises which are a risk to health
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taking formal enforcement action where needed
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carrying out microbiological and chemical sampling of food and water.
We maintain a register of all registered food premises (approximately 1,600) in the district. A copy of the register can be viewed at Pathfinder House in Huntingdon.