A mislabeled vacation dessert has actually caused the death of a gifted young dancer.
New York entertainer Órla Baxendale passed away Jan 11 due to anaphylactic shock arising from a “severe” allergy, her legal representative shared in a declarationJan 24. She was 25.
Baxendale’s death was brought on by “an unfortunate incident” after she consumed a cookie which contained concealed peanuts, according to her legal group, which called the mislabel a “tragic oversight.”
Following her death, grocery store chain Stew Leonard’s remembered about 500 bundles of the Vanilla Florentine Cookie that were offered fromNov 6 toDec 31 at shops in Danbury and Newington, Conn., per the Associated Press.
The dancer’s legal representative stated the medical emergency situation was brought on by “gross negligence and reckless conduct,” due to the fact that the producer or seller apparently “failed to properly identify the contents of the cookie on the packaging.”
Sharing his destruction over the event, Stew Leonard’s CEO Stew Leonard Jr. stated the provider altered the dish from soy nuts to peanuts without alerting them. However, the producer Cookies United stated it had notified Stew Leonard’s of the active ingredient modification a number of months prior.
