Oh no, not Walkers! This is sad news…
Walkers has recalled certain batches of Walkers Ready Salted and Salt & Vinegar Crisps. Due to a packaging error, a small number of Walkers Ready Salted Crisps and Walkers Salt & Vinegar Crisps may have been packed with other Walkers seasonings that are unsuitable for those on a lactose, milk, soya, and barley free diet.
This affects Walkers Ready Salted Crisps and Walkers Salt & Vinegar Crisps contained within:
* Walkers Ready Salted 6 Pack Multipacks
* Walkers 18 pack Multipacks
* Walkers 6 pack Variety Multipacks
Here are the date codes to look for:
Variety 18 pack
25-09-10 GBS 5 1 190
25-09-10 GBS 5 2 190
25-09-10 GBS 5 1 191
25-09-10 GBS 5 2 191
25-09-10 GBS 5 1 192
25-09-10 GBS 5 2 192
02-10-10 GBS 5 1 192
02-10-10 GBS 5 2 192
Variety 6 pack
25-09-10 GBS 5 F1 190
25-09-10 GBS 5 F2 190
25-09-10 GBS 5 F3 190
25-09-10 GBS 5 F1 191
25-09-10 GBS 5 F2 191
25-09-10 GBS 5 F3 191
Ready Salted 6 pack
25-09-10 GBS 5 F2 191
25-09-10 GBS 5 F4 191
25-09-10 GBS 5 F2 192
25-09-10 GBS 5 F4 192
02-10-10 GBS 5 F2 192
02-10-10 GBS 5 F4 192
No other Walkers products are known to be affected.
If you’ve bought packs with these date codes, don’t eat them! Take them back to the shop you bought them from. I’m just going to check our store cupboards now…
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Thanks for the update, my favorite crisps. Will have to check mine in the cupboard.
I was diagnosed in 2003 and initially thought there was very few mainstream gluten free products. Then a year or year later it seemed that most major food producers got onto the extent of coeliacs in the UK and seemed to make an effort to provide gluten free produce (i.e cut out the starch etc). However in recent years it appears standards are slipping and nobody seems to give damn anymore. Is this due to credit crunch that major food retailers are starting to reintroduce gluten to previous gluten free foods?
Hi Tony – thanks for visiting. That’s a really interesting question: credit crunch or ‘out of fashion’ for some other reason?
I definitely agree with you – things did get better 2000-2010. I do hope that standards aren’t slipping, as you suggest. Perhaps it’s more that people are realising that it is difficult to get right? Or that labelling standards have improved, and so there appears to be more problems, where before they were hidden?
Let’s hope its not the beginning of a trend.
The dairy thing is interesting: the ingredients label for salt & vinegar now shows some milk in the flavouring.
I’ll be writing to them as this removes one of the few flavour that our eldest used to be able to eat.
:-(
Milk? In salt and vinegar flavour? You do have to wonder why…
How very frustrating for you (and your eldest!). I’d be interested to know what Walkers say, if they respond.