The body is advising both food businesses and individual shoppers not to buy or consume eggs originating from Yasensvit Ltd, Kyiv, Ukraine, after Salmonella was identified in the product.
The FSA said the affected eggs are stamped with the code 3UA1012066 and may have been supplied to catering businesses or sold through smaller retail outlets.
As a result, all eggs bearing this code produced by Yasensvit Ltd have been withdrawn from the market and should not be consumed.
The FSA is asking consumers and food businesses to carefully check eggs for the code 3UA1012066, which is printed directly onto the shell.
This is because Yasensvit Ltd’s eggs may have been repacked by UK businesses and sold under different business names or packing centre details on the outer packaging, making the egg stamp code the most reliable way to identify affected products.
Symptoms caused by Salmonella usually include fever, diarrhoea and abdominal cramps.
If individuals experience these symptoms, the FSA advises them to stay away from work, school or nursery until they have been symptom-free for at least 48 hours to avoid passing the infection on to others.
The news comes as the UK continues to battle an ongoing Salmonella outbreak linked to imported eggs, which has so far resulted in two fatalities.
This has prompted the FSA and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to advise customers to stick to British-produced ‘Lion-stamped’ eggs if they wish to avoid any risks from imported products.
