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Tesco says ready meal recall is “purely precautionary”

The supermarket recalls four different ready meals over fears of potential metal contamination in their mashed potato.

TESCO has issued a product recall of four of its ready meals, over fears that some of the mashed potato contained in them may have been subject to metal poisoning.

The four meals, all from the Tesco Finest range, are manufactured in the UK, and the supermarket said the recall of the products was “purely precautionary” with the majority of the products from those ranges unaffected.

The meals being sought for recall all have a ‘best before’ date of March 1, and come from the following lines:

  • Tesco Finest 3 Cumberland Sausages with Mash, 500g
  • Tesco Finest Pork and Ginger Beer with Mashed Potato, 450g
  • Tesco Finest Shepherds Pie, 430g and 800g
  • Tesco Finest Aberdeen Angus Cottage Pie, 430g

A Tesco spokesman said the products were ordinarily only put on shelves a week before their expiry date, so it was not expected that many of the affected meals had entered circulation.

Nonetheless, as a precaution, the supermarket had issued the recall notice to its stores on Monday and sent an email to users of its online grocery shopping service this evening.

Customers are advised that receipts are not required in order for the goods to be exchanged.

Customers querying the recall can reach Tesco customer service on an international free-to-call number, at 00800 00 225533.

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Comments (7 Comments)

  • I’d like to think its less likely that would have happened if they were supporting Irish suppliers !

    What Tesco are doing in preferring foreign suppliers over Irish ones will have ruin many Irish suppliers in the longer term…. And by then of course it will be too late, their market share will be simply too great

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  • Toureag 23/02/11 #

    I don’t eat British beef after watching the TV about foot & mouth incident some years ago. Even I don’t eat it while on trip to UK……..

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  • I’ve eaten all of these dishes and really enjoyed them. In light of this news I would recommend adding metal to all meals in future as the results are really tasty although I do hope it won’t cause me problems going through the security X-ray at knock. The machine there is very sensitive and you have to almost undress completely before the buzzer will stop beeping.

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  • Barry R. 24/02/11 #

    @jamie. Tesco choose GB suppliers because it suits their model. They treat Ireland as a sub-region of Britain and try to ignore cultural and business practice differences. Buying in bulk is the key to success and beating the suppliers into submission on price or being threatened with being delisted.

    If Tesco are buying 5million chickens a week from Bernard Matthews (not always even using British chicken) in Britain what hope has an Ireland producer of supplying for the Ireland market?
    And of course don’t be fooled into thinking its for your benefit, Ireland returns one of the highest margins WORLDWIDE for Tesco

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  • Here’s a tip never ever buy a readymade lasagne from tesco I bought one and 3 people after 1 spoonful spat it out and said it was awful it tasted like babyfood !! I still wake up screaming about it 2 years later. You have been warned!

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