Farley's rusks withdrawn

Thursday 2 February 2006

Farley's has withdrawn from sale a consignment of Farley's rusks that have been found to contain low levels of a pesticide, chlorpropham.

The levels of chlorpropham are not harmful to health but the affected rusks do not comply with the regulations that set a maximum limit for pesticide residues in infant food.

While they are not considered to be a risk to health, consumers may wish to be aware that the following batches of product are affected:

The affected products are:

• Farley's Mini Rusks (multibag); Best before date: 01/01/2007
• Farley's Mini Fruit Bears Orange flavour (multibag); Best before date:15/10/2006 and 17/10/2006
• Farley's Original Rusks (cash and carry); Best before date: 1/07/2007
• Farley's reduced sugar original rusks (cash and carry); Best before date: 01/06/2007
• Farley's reduced sugar original rusks (9's); Best before date: 01/07/2007
• Farley's reduced sugar original rusks (18's); Best before date: 01/06/2007 and 01/07/2007
• Farley's original rusks (9's); Best before date: 01/07/2007
• Farley's original rusks (18's); Best before date: 01/06/2007 and 01/07/2007
• Farley's reduced sugar banana rusk ( 9's); Best before date: 01/06/2007
• Farley's Mini Fruit Bears Apple flavour (multibag); Best before date: 11/10/2006, 12/10/2006, 13 to 15/09/2006
• Farley's Mini Bears with Prebiotic (multibag); Best before date: 19/09/2006 and 20/09/2006

If consumers are concerned they should contact the company�s UK customer care line on 08000 151557 or 1800 696979 for the Republic of Ireland.

No other products are known to be affected. The affected products have been distributed to retail outlets across the UK and Ireland.

The manufacturer, Farley�s, discovered the problem, which is understood to have involved a batch of flour, and took action to stop the production and distribution of the rusks using this flour.