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The FSA has recently published a summary of those food incidents, handled between January and March 2016, that led to an alert being issued by the FSA to recall or withdraw products from sale. This quarterly list also includes information on investigations we supported relating to potential widespread risks from food poisoning and harmful contamination.

Over the three month period, we issued 49 food notices, of which 24 were allergy alerts, with the top undeclared allergen being milk. The FSA also supported twelve major investigations linked to possible risks of food poisoning and nine to do with physical contamination.

The information published recently describes the overall details of the incident, the level of risk to consumers and what action we, industry and local authorities took.

The FSA has collated this data to make it easier for consumers to access incident information.

Will Creswell, Head of Consumer Protection, said: 'We hope this retrospective look, covering food incidents from January to March 2016, will be useful to people who want to know more about the incidents we handle. These incidents aren’t live but the list provides all the important aspects of them in one place'. 

Each year, a small number of incidents or investigations are put forward for a detailed review so that the FSA can make improvements and identify lessons learned.

To get details of all the latest food withdrawals and recalls, you can sign up to our free service and choose to receive alerts as emails or as SMS text messages sent to your mobile phone.

Summary of food incidents: January to March 2016(150.67 KB)