Inarah's Frozen Foods Recalled Across Entire Range Over Safety Concerns

This isn't one dodgy batch, it's the whole lot. The Food Standards Agency has issued a Food Alert For Action covering every frozen product made by Inarah's Frozen Foods Ltd, after the company was unable to demonstrate that its food had been produced and handled safely. That covers chicken, beef, fish and vegetarian items across three brands, in every pack size and every date code. If you've got any of it in your freezer, don't eat it.

What's Affected

• Brands: Inarah's Frozen Foods, Inarah's Fine Foods, and New York Crispy
• Products: A wide range of frozen items, including chicken, beef, fish and vegetarian products
• Pack sizes: All pack sizes
• Best-before dates: All dates, regardless of batch number

There's no single product or batch code to check against here. If the brand on the packaging is one of those three, it's part of the alert, full stop. Dig out anything frozen with an Inarah's or New York Crispy label and treat it as included.

What You Should Do

If you bought any of these products as a shopper:

• Don't eat them. Food that hasn't met hygiene and safety requirements can carry bacteria you can't see, smell or taste, and freezing doesn't make unsafe food safe.
• Dispose of them at home. Unusually for a recall, the FSA isn't asking you to take these back to a shop. The advice is to throw them away yourself.
• Felt unwell after eating some? Symptoms of foodborne illness, stomach cramps, diarrhoea, vomiting or fever, can take hours or a few days to appear. If you're badly affected or symptoms drag on, contact your GP or NHS 111.

If you run a food business and stock any of these lines:

• Stop selling them immediately and remove them from sale.
• Withdraw and recall any stock, including products already sold on to customers where there have been retail sales.
• Dispose of the stock safely rather than passing it on.

What a "Food Alert For Action" Actually Means

Most of the alerts the FSA puts out are standard product recalls or withdrawals, where a specific item is pulled and shoppers are asked to bring it back for a refund. A Food Alert For Action is a step up. It's used when the agency needs businesses to take direct, immediate steps, typically because a problem is broad or the safety of the food can't be verified at all. That's the situation here. The issue isn't a known contaminant in one product, it's that the company couldn't show the whole range was made and handled to the required standard, so the entire output is being treated as potentially unsafe.

That's why the alert is so broad and the action so firm. When you can't trust how something was produced, the safest assumption is that none of it can be trusted. To keep on top of alerts like this one, the FSA alerts page is the place to check.