Ireland's major supermarkets are all warning customers to not eat certain Kinder products purchased in their stores in recent weeks.
Ferrero, the company that makes Kinder chocolate, issued multiple recalls in the past few weeks with their product causing salmonella in many consumers.
Tesco, Dunnes and Supervalu are all amongst the shops that sell the treats, and have put up warnings on their websites.
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A notice from Tesco reads: "If you’ve bought an affected product, please don’t eat it. Instead, contact Ferrero at consumers.uk@ferrero.com or on 0330 053 8943 (UK), +44 (0)330 053 8943 (Ireland) to get a full refund. Alternatively, return it to a Tesco store for a refund. No receipt is required."
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland issued an updated warning on Wednesday alerting Irish consumers over certain batches of the chocolate treats.
The notice, which is the third in recent days, concerns additional batches of Kinder Surprise 20g and Kinder Surprise 20g x 3 products.
Other items also being recalled are certain batches of Kinder Mini Eggs, Kinder Egg Hunt Kit, Kinder Surprise and Kinder Schokobons.
The six products being recalled are:
According to the FSAI: "People infected with Salmonella typically develop symptoms between 12 and 36 hours after infection, but this can range between 6 and 72 hours.
"The most common symptom is diarrhoea, which can sometimes be bloody. Other symptoms may include fever, headache and abdominal cramps.
"The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days. Diarrhoea can occasionally be severe enough to require hospital admission. The elderly, infants, and those with impaired immune systems are more likely to have more severe illness."
Consumers are advised not to eat the implicated batches, while retailers are requested to remove the implicated batches from sale and to display a point-of-sale recall notice in stores where the affected products were sold.
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