Few things say Easter like gulping down chocolate and other treats at the end of Passion Week, following the forty days of lent; however, this year, there was one company that had to step down from all the chocolate eating joy, as thousands of Easter egg cookies had to be recalled last weekend.
Of course, although they're called Easter egg cookies, none of them actually contain any eggs at all, and they're labeled as such by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), as there are many people in the United States that suffer from heavy egg allergies that could lead to their deaths.
According to The Independent, that's exactly why the Easter egg cookies were recalled: apparently, they posed a major health risk for those consumers who had important allergies to eggs, which prompted the company that makes them, Silver Lake, to recall the seasonal treat.
These Easter eggs cookies are made of butter and they're decorated to look like the classic seasonal sweet, without declaring actual eggs in the making of the product.
ABC News reports that the Easter eggs cookies that posed problems were those with the UPC code "0 37695 49817 1," and they were sold to supermarkets in nine different states, namely Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Website 13Wham reports that about 90 percent of all allergies in the United States are caused by some of these: eggs, fish, milk, shellfish, peanuts, wheat, soybeans and tree nuts. In other words, eggs are among the most common allergens, and there's a wide arrange of the population that could be seriously damaged from eating something that contains them.
There have been no reported cases of injury or death in regards of the Easter egg cookies that were previously tainted with the food, as the recall was voluntarily issued on time.
