A popular chocolate bar has been recalled because of a potentially deadly undeclared allergen.
Customers who bought Neosis Schokolade Love of Dubai chocolate are being urged to return the product for a refund, and businesses have been told to pull it from their shelves.
The Food Standards Agency issued an alert reading: ‘This product contains peanut, which is not mentioned on the label, making it a possible health risk to anyone with an allergy to peanuts.
‘Don’t buy this product, and if you have bought it, don’t eat it, especially if you have a peanut allergy.
‘Dispose of the product at home and get in touch with your local Trading Standards in Great Britain or Environmental Health Officers in Northern Ireland to let them know where you purchased it,’ they added.
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Businesses were supplied the chocolate by a company called Black Sea Trading Ltd, which the FSA said has been ‘uncontactable’.
Dubai chocolate, which is filled with crispy knafeh, pistachio cream and tahini spread, was launched in 2021 by Dubai-based firm, Fix Dessert Chocolatier.
The dessert has become so popular in recent months that it was blamed for a worldwide pistachio shortage.
Buyers eager to get their hands on the bars also flocked to supermarket stockists across the world, with at least one retailer having to set a limit on how many you could buy at a time.
Giles Hacking, of nut trading firm CG Hacking, told the Financial Times the pistachio industry had become ‘tapped out’ due to chocolatiers making mass purchases of the kernels.
Iran, which is the world’s second-largest pistachio producer, exported 40% more pistachios to the UAE from September 2024 to March 2025 than it did over the full 12 months before that, the MailOnline reports.
Earlier this month, a popular children’s ice lolly was pulled from UK supermarkets due to a labelling error.
Wall’s Mini Milks have been pulled from shelves in UK supermarkets, with shoppers warned not to eat the vanilla, strawberry and chocolate packs.
Allergens were incorrectly labelled in Spanish rather than English, risking anyone allergic to milk, pistachios, peanuts and soya.
Hundreds of blueberry boxes were also recalled over a ‘severe’ listeria warning this month.
Alma Pak International LLC voluntarily recalled 400 boxes, weighing 300 pounds each, of its organic blueberries on June 19
Food safety officials say the bacteria were discovered during ‘routine testing’ of the finished product.
The recall is Class 1, the most serious category, indicating that exposure to the product will likely cause health consequences or even death.
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