Two of Jeremy Clarkson’s popular beers recalled over health risk

A popular lager sold by Jeremy Clarkson has been recalled due to an undisclosed allergen.

The Cotswold Brewing Company uses barley grown at Clarkson’s famous Diddly Squat Farm in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire – but the Food Standards Agency has issued an alert over undeclared wheat for those intolerant to gluten.

The recall affects two different brews – all batch codes of Hawkstone Black 440ml cans; and all batch codes of the 330ml Hawkstone Spa Lager.

The beers are sold in Waitrose and on the brewery’s website.

In a statement, the FSA said: ‘The Cotswold Brewing Company Limited is recalling Hawkstone Black and Hawkstone Spa Lager because they contain undeclared wheat (gluten) which is not mentioned on the label.

‘This means the product is a possible health risk for anyone with an allergy or intolerance to wheat or gluten, or with coeliac disease.’

Any customer who has bought the product can return it to the shop where they purchased it for a full refund.

Late last month, more than 10,000 cans of Coca-Cola were recalled for fear they might contain ‘foreign objects.

Plastic contamination was identified in 864 packs of 12-ounce cans of Coca-Cola Original Taste, according to a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforcement report.

Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling initiated the recall on March 6 and the FDA on Monday designated it as a Class II recall, meaning that consuming the product could lead to temporary and medically reversible health effects.

‘Hard or sharp foreign objects in food may cause traumatic injury including laceration and perforation of tissues of the mouth, tongue, throat, stomach and intestine as well as damage to the teeth and gums,’ stated the FDA.

Affected batches were distributed by the Milwaukee-based company only in Illinois and Wisconsin.

‘The cases are being withdrawn because they did not meet our high-quality standards,’ a Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling spokesperson told Newsweek.

‘We are taking this voluntary action because nothing is more important to us than providing high-quality products to the people who drink our beverages.’

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