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Tesco has recalled its own-brand chocolate ice-cream cones after painkiller tablets were found in them, and launched an “urgent investigation”.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said that tablets were found in two individual Tesco chocolate and nut ice-cream cones, and Tesco has responded by removing the product from sale in stores and online, and asking customers to return it to the store. The recall affects all best-before dates up-to July 2014.
The ice-cream cones are supplied by the Yorkshire-based R&R Ice Cream which also makes a number of branded ice-creams including Fab and Rowntree’s Fruit Pastilles lollies. R&R have not yet made a statement about the recall.
Other items previously for sale at Tesco which are currently being recalled include a salad that includes Edamame beans rather than garden peas, packets of crisps that contain bits of plastic, and electrical chargers/adapters that may give the user an electric shock.
