Puffed rice cakes sold by Carrefour and Franprix are the subject of a product recall for a risk of contamination with mycotoxins, substances potentially carcinogenic and harmful to health.
- Consumer products (food or non-food) that pose health or safety risks to consumers may be subject to a recall.
- A total of 4,803 recall procedures for food products have been identified since April 2021, i.e. around 400 recalls every month.
Beware, if you are a fan of puffed rice cakes and have recently purchased some, you may be concerned. The Carrefour chain of stores, as well as Franprix, proceeded this Wednesday and Thursday, October 19 and 20, to recall two batches of brown rice cakes sold on their shelves throughout France and potentially containing carcinogenic substances.
Product recall: a refund is possible
According to sheets published on the government website Drink reminder, the products concerned are 100 g sachets of 4-grain puffed rice cakes, marketed by the Carrefour Bio brand, and brown rice cakes from the Franprix brand. The patties were sold between June 13 and October 18 throughout the country and have a use-by date (DLC) set at June 1 or 2, 2023 for Carrefour. For the Franprix sachet, it was marketed for a period of one month, from September 8 to October 9, with a date of minimum durability set at May 25, 2023.
Customers will be able to obtain a refund until November 18, when the recall procedure ends.
Mycotoxins: potentially carcinogenic substances
The two pancakes could contain mycotoxins, including aflatoxins, potentially carcinogenic substances and which would have harmful effects on health, on the liver and the nervous system for example. Mycotoxins are toxins produced by various species of microscopic fungi such as moulds, which regularly contaminate vegetable, fruit and cereal crops. The ingestion of food “weakly contaminated for several weeks or months“can cause diarrhea, vomiting, weight loss and impact the liver, an organ targeted by aflatoxins, specifies the site Cancer Environment.
Rappel Conso, the public consumer information site on product recalls, recommends that consumers no longer eat these cookies and destroy them or bring them back to the store.
