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Sesame seeds are contaminated with the pesticide ethylene oxide, which is a toxic gas used for disinfection and production of ethylene glycol.
Marie Wiborg, Head of the Foreign Food and EEA Section at the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, says Belgium has notified the rest of the EU and Norway that high ethylene oxide values have been found in a batch of imported sesame seeds. from India.
– Part of this batch has been imported to Norway. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority has notified the companies involved that they will withdraw the relevant products from the market. Ethylene oxide is believed to be carcinogenic and the substance should not be present in foods that are sold, it says in a comment to NTB.
For VG, Jone Voll, CEO of Idun Industri, confirms that the company has asked bakeries and customers not to use products that contain sesame seeds.
– In the first instance, the focus is on stopping the dispatch and what is in use. Then we’ll map the usage over time, he says.
The mistake also leads to nationwide cake recalls, VG writes.
This applies to “Lightly Fried Cereal Bread” from Eldorado and “Fitness baguette” from Bakehuset, Norgesgruppen confirms to the newspaper.
Grain bread has been on sale until today in all Norgesgruppen chains.
