Just another warning about Pope Jam... I wrote this post last year and had been assured by NZFSA that they were getting it sorted... ie that the extremely dodgy Pope Jam would need to include "butter" on their ingredients list. I found it in the supermarket yesterday "NEW PRODUCT" proclaimed the sign. It is labelled exactly the same as last year.... grrrrr makes me so mad. I have had so many conversations and emails to sort this over the past year and Mr Owen Pope has done absolutely nothing. I could go into much more nasty detail but I will hold my tongue, email NZFSA again and see what they're going to do. Kinda tempted to give Fair Go or Campbell Live a call... here's my old post anyway.
Okay so I'm a label reader. It goes with the territory when you have a kid with a serious food allergy. So when I fed this raspberry jam to our four year old recently I checked the ingredients. Raspberry and sugar, sweet, no dairy in that... or so I thought (cue ominous music). He had a number of pikelets with jam for afternoon tea and then didn't feel like his dinner (not like him, he usually is asking for seconds and thirds!). Later that night I found him asleep in a bed covered with vomit, oh lovely. Anyway a couple of days later I notice that on the top of the jam it mentions that it's made with a "knob of butter"! Now I can't tell if that's what caused R to throw up or not that night. There's no way to tell without trying it again... which we won't be doing in case he has a much worse reaction. Bloody sneaky labelling if you ask me. Not impressed with Pope Jam.
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Thanks for the heads up!
Isn't that illegal? To not list all the ingredients? Particularly with all the food allergies around. I am SURE you have to list all the ingredients.
Yup, get onto Fair Go. Great idea!
Oh my gosh!! we bought this a few months ago, and I was wondering why D had a rash around her mouth after eating a little of it. (she has dairy/egg allergy). SO bad of them.
Im sure its illegal too...and I have never figured out why they need butter in jam??
Hi Meg - am not impressed Pope jam. Hmmm may mention this to my connection at jam opposition company???
Waaaaaa & Grrrrrrr NOT good -
I innocently 'thought' you had to label ingredients - am I wrong in my thoughts?
I hear your frustration, we had an experience with a snack bar a couple of years ago, I lifted the back seal and read Ingredients - no peanuts and so gave it to my husband who promptly spat it out before swelling up. When I rechecked there was a second, 2 line ,list of organic ingredients which listed peanut on the other end of the bar hidden under the seal. Thankfully it did not cause a full blown reaction and after writing to the company there is now a list of all the ingredients together . Has made me very careful selecting new products- I'd be pretty peeved with this jam company.
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