apetito is a global organisation with 50 years experience in providing frozen food and catering solutions to Care Homes, Local Authorities and Hospitals. We also provide a frozen meal delivery service to the public via our franchise Wiltshire Farm Foods and a community meals delivery service through Local Authorities via apetito Services.

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Dioxin Contamination Of Eggs

10 Jan, 2011

Based on current proven knowledge, apetito is not affected by the reported dioxin contamination of eggs originating from Germany.

We have been in contact with all suppliers who use egg in ingredients or foods that are purchased by apetito and none of these are linked to any sources which have traced as potentially affected by the contamination.

We are however maintaining our awareness of developments in case further information should arise.

Comments from the food standards agency

The pasteurised liquid whole egg (that is including the white and yolk) was produced using eggs from Germany that could contain levels of dioxins that are above the legal limits. These eggs were subsequently mixed with non-contaminated eggs to produce pasteurised liquid egg, an ingredient used widely in the manufacturer of cakes.

This pasteurised liquid egg has been supplied to two manufacturers in the UK. These are:

  • Kensey Foods, Cornwall – a division of Samworth Brothers
  • Memory Lane Cakes Ltd, Cardiff – a division of Finsbury Food Group

These manufacturers used the pasteurised liquid egg to produce a range of short shelf life cakes and quiches, which were supplied to the major UK supermarkets.

There is no food safety risk from eating these products. The majority of products will have been sold and most have passed their ‘use by’ or ‘best before’ dates.

Supermarkets are removing the small amount of products that are still in date.

Safety measures by apetito

apetito ensures that suppliers have been fully approved against food safety standards prior to receipt of any foodstuffs,  employ laboratory analyses where appropriate to check that the required standards of food safety are being maintained and run trials to ensure full traceability of goods is maintained . 

In addition a number of measures are employed to maintain full awareness of potential or actual food issues around the world to enable rapid reaction to any potential impact and therefore prevent impact for the consumer.