'Do not eat' warning issued as popular ready-meal is urgently pulled from shelves due to risk of deadly reaction

Shoppers person been urged to bin a fashionable beef lasagne ready-meal aft immoderate packs were discovered to incorporate a lobster mentation of the dish, posing a imaginable allergy threat.

Health chiefs past nighttime issued an urgent recall of La Famiglia Rana Slow-Cooked Braised Beef Lasagne, citing 'a packing error' arsenic the origin of the issue.

The Food Standards Agency warned that 'some packs whitethorn incorporate Prawn & Lobster Lasagne, that contains crustaceans, (prawns and lobster), which are not mentioned connected the label'.

This means the merchandise is simply a imaginable wellness hazard for anyone with an allergy to crustaceans. 

The affected merchandise is La Famiglia Rana Slow-Cooked Braised Beef Lasagne, successful the battalion size of 700g.

Shoppers should look for batch codification L0B510816, with a usage by day listed arsenic 17 June 2025.

The alert claims Giovanni Rana Ltd 'is recalling the supra merchandise from customers' and the institution added: 'If you person bought the supra merchandise and person an allergy to crustaceans, bash not devour it. 

'Instead instrumentality it to the store from wherever it was bought for a afloat refund, adjacent without a receipt.' 

In the UK, shellfish allergies are estimated to impact up to 3 per cent of the big population—approximately 1.5million people.

Sufferers tin often tolerate circumstantial types of shellfish, specified arsenic mollusks—oysters, mussels, etc—while being allergic to crustaceans specified arsenic shrimp, lobster and crab.

Reactions can scope successful severity from mild to life-threatening, and the risk of a terrible reaction, known arsenic anaphylaxis, is the large concern. 

Shellfish allergy symptoms are overmuch similar different allergic reactions, with itching, hives, tingling oregon swelling of the lips, lingua oregon pharynx being among the astir common. 

Chest tightness, wheezing, coughing, shortness of enactment and trouble breathing tin beryllium seen, alongside tummy issues: nausea, indigestion, vomiting oregon diarrhea.

Anaphylaxis the astir terrible and perchance life-threatening benignant of allergic absorption that tin hap wrong minutes of vulnerability to a trigger, specified arsenic shellfish.

Symptoms whitethorn see swelling of the look oregon throat, trouble breathing, a accelerated driblet successful humor pressure, dizziness, and nonaccomplishment of consciousness. 

Without punctual treatment, anaphylaxis tin beryllium fatal.

The astir effectual attraction is an injection of adrenaline, and sufferers of terrible allergies are encouraged to transportation an auto-injector, specified arsenic an EpiPen. 

Anyone experiencing anaphylaxis should question exigency aesculapian attraction immediately, adjacent if symptoms look to amended aft the injection. 

Avoiding known allergens is important for those astatine risk, and carrying exigency medicine astatine each times is often advised.

Alongside recalling their lasagne product, Giovanni Rana is contacting allergy enactment organisations, truthful they tin pass their members astir the recall.