DANBURY, CONN. — Attention Stew Leonard shoppers, there is a recall in Connecticut.
The supermarket chain is recalling dozens of banana bread chocolate chunks sold at its Danbury location over the past week.
According to store officials, a customer informed them that the bread contained walnuts, which were not listed on the label.
There are no reports of anyone becoming ill from the nuts. Customers can return the bread for a full refund.
Stew Leonard’s has three locations in Connecticut, including Danbury, Newington and Norwalk. The Danbury store is located at 99 Federal Road and is open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Stew Leonard has been charged with fatal allergic reaction
Earlier this year, the family passed on from 25-year-old dancer Orla Ruth Baxendale sued the company after she ate a Christmas cookie at an event and died of a peanut allergy. Nuts were not listed on the label.
“Her death was completely, 100% preventable and avoidable. That is why the packaging is so important,” said the family’s lawyer, Marijo Adimey. told CBS News New York two weeks after her death.
Baxendale’s friends told Adimey that she checked the ingredients before eating the cookie.
“Just to make sure there was nothing in terms of peanuts on the label. That wasn’t the case. So, thinking it was safe, she took a bite or two of the cookie and within a minute went into anaphylactic shock. to hit,” Adimey said.
Stew Leonard’s said the cookies were produced by Long Island-based wholesaler Cookies United, and about 500 packages were sold at its Danbury and Newington stores before they were recalled.
“It was a Christmas cookie, it was a one-time deal. But we bought it from an outside supplier, and unfortunately the supplier changed the recipe and went from soynuts to peanuts, and our chief safety officer here at Stew Leonard’s was never notified,” President and CEO Stew Leonard Jr. said in a video statement.
The wholesaler told CBS News New York that he had sent multiple emails about the change and that Stew Leonard had repackaged the cookies and created the labels.
