Earlier this month in the US, Orla Baxendale, 25, consumed a vanilla florentine cookie and experienced severe anaphylactic shock.
On January 11th, Orla Baxendale, a 25-year-old woman, experienced severe anaphylactic shock due to an allergic reaction to a vanilla florentine cookie from the US grocery chain Stew Leonard’s.
According to state health officials, Ms. Baxendale, who relocated to New York in 2018 to pursue a career in dance, consumed the cookie at a get-together in Connecticut.
Although the biscuit did not list peanuts as an ingredient, it did contain them.
In collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration, 500 packages of the cookies that were distributed between November 6 and December 31 have now been recalled.
The retailer’s president and CEO, Stew Leonard Jr., stated in a video released on Wednesday that Cookies United, their supplier, switched the recipe’s nut source from soy to peanuts without informing the company’s chief safety officer.
However, Cookies United said in a statement that all goods sent to the retailer had been labeled appropriately and that they had informed Stew Leonard’s last July that the product contained peanuts.
According to the supplier, Stew Leonard’s was the one who made the inaccurate label.
In a statement, Ms. Baxendale’s family said: “Órla was genuinely unique. She was a stunning, brilliant, courageous woman who always had faith that she would realize her greatest aspirations, and she did. She traveled the world while dancing and experienced daily life to the fullest.
