Date:17.10.2012
Name of product: Dried seaweed
Manufacturer (distributor): Panasia Handelsges.mbH
Reason for Warning: Iodine overdoses
Packaging unit: 80g
Durability (best before date or use-by date): 01.11.2012
Batch number / lot identification: 2012.11.01.F2
For more information: For reasons of preventive consumer protection, the food companies Panasia DE Handelsges.mbH calls from Oberursel back dried seaweed. The recall is a strong Iodine overdoses of the product. Already a consumption of about 1.5 g of the food, it is to exceed the maximum tolerable daily intake of high-iodine products. Consumption of excessive amounts of iodine can lead to thyroid disorders and is therefore to be regarded as harmful.
Website of the manufacturer: http://www.panasia.at
Contact with the competent authorities:
Baden-Württemberg: poststelle@mlr.bwl.de
Hamburg: poststelle@bgv.hamburg.de
Hesse: poststelle@hmuelv.hessen.de
North Rhine-Westphalia: poststelle@mkulnv.nrw.de