This resolution was triggered through an EU food protection alert and Spain and France have also issued recalls of several Haagen-Dazs products.
After recalling 10 last Friday, the Belgian national food and fitness firm added seven more Haagen-Dazs to the list on Tuesday.
The latest resolution considers jars and mini-juices made through Haagen-Dazs, a brand owned by American manufacturer General Mills, with expiration dates between March and April 2023, with flavors such as vanilla, Belgian chocolate, brittle macadamia nuts and pralines and cream.
Customers who had purchased Haagen-Dazs products affected by the recalls were asked to eat them, destroy them, and contact General Mills for a refund.
The alert was transmitted to the EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed at the request of France, which last month detected 2-chloroethanol at controls on certain Haagen-Dazs products, prompting the initial recall.
2-chloroethanol is a compound of ethylene oxide (ETO), a carcinogenic chemical used as a pesticide and cleaning product, and has DNA-damaging properties.
General Mills said last week that “traces of ETO would possibly come from an element (vanilla extract) provided through one of our suppliers. “
Outside the EU, Brazil’s fitness watchdog firm ANVISA last month issued its own alert on Haagen-Dazs vanilla imported from France.
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