Caution advised: Albert Heijn warns about Häagen-Dazs Vanilla ice cream
Häagen-Dazs ice cream: love it! I can eat litres of it. A big tub on the sofa: gone before you know it. But have you bought Häagen-Dazs Vanilla ice cream, a 460 ml tub? It needs to be returned. The product contains vanilla extract in which the pesticide ethylene oxide may have ended up.
Ethylene whát? I hear you thinking. Ethylene oxide is a substance with various applications. It is often used as a disinfectant against bacteria and fungi. Strict rules apply to ethylene oxide in Europe. Recalled products, such as Häagen-Dazs Vanilla ice cream this time, contain more of the substance than permitted, but the amounts involved are very small.
Don’t panic right away
If you eat something once that contains more ethylene oxide than permitted, this does not immediately pose a health risk. But if you consume large amounts of this substance frequently and over a long period (in other words: almost daily for several years), this may be harmful to your health.
Here’s how to return it
So return that tub of Häagen-Dazs Vanilla. It specifically concerns the 460 ml tub with barcode 3415581101010 and best-before dates from 3/8/2022 through 8/5/2023. Other Häagen-Dazs flavours are not part of this recall, so you can safely eat them as usual.
You can receive a full refund via generalmills.com/VanillaRecall. For more information, you can contact Häagen-Dazs Consumer Services on 0800-333231 or by email at: Service.Consommateur@genmills.com
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Source: Albert Heijn
