CZECH: Food watchdog recalls Ahold peanuts
By: just-food.com | 10 March 2009
The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority (CAFIA) has detected excessive amounts of melamine in coated peanuts produced by Menken Orland for Dutch retailer Ahold.
The CAFIA has, as a precaution, withdrawn all imported batches of the product - Oriental mix packaged in 225g bags with a best-before date of 14 July 2009 and batch number 1/9034/8.
"In total, 4,528 pieces of this batch were withdrawn. However, the limit set for melamine was exceeded only slightly, thus the foodstuff does not pose a direct health risk," the CAFIA said.
Oriental mix is the first officially sampled Chinese-imported food on Czech territory in which an exceeding amount of melamine was detected since September 2008.
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