November 2026 food alerts: what they mean for your kitchen

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) publishes three kinds of alert. A Product Recall Information Notice tells the public that a product is being recalled and what to do if you have bought it. An Allergy Alert covers an allergen problem, such as an allergen missing from the label or labelled wrongly. A Food Alert for Action is used when the FSA needs local authorities to step in. It sets out the action food businesses are asked to take, and local authorities check that it is done.

This page covers the alerts the FSA has published since 1 November 2026. We add new ones as they come out, each under its own "Updated" heading, so you can see what is new since you last looked. October's alerts, including the Walkers Variety Snacks Sharing Box update of 1 November, are in our October 2026 round-up.

On 4 November AG Barr recalled Rubicon Yuzu & Pink Grapefruit in 1 litre cartons. The drink may contain sulphites, and the label does not say so. That is a risk for anyone who is sensitive to sulphur dioxide or sulphites. The FSA lists only these four batches:

• batch code 6160, best before June 2027
• batch code 6198, best before July 2027
• batch code 6219, best before August 2027
• batch code 6257, best before September 2027

The FSA lists this as England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The FSA says AG Barr has been asked to contact allergy support groups, and shops selling the drink will show notices to customers. The FSA reference is FSA-AA-51-2026.

For your kitchen: cafes, takeaways and pubs often keep cartons like these for drinks by the glass, or use them in mocktails, jellies and sorbets. Check the batch code and best before date on any cartons you have in. If they match, set them aside, do not serve them, and contact your supplier. Do not serve any drink or dish you have already made with them unless the allergen information you give customers for it now shows sulphites. Sulphur dioxide and sulphites are one of the 14 allergens. Write down what you found and what you did.

Read the FSA alert record

None of this is complicated, and none of it replaces what the notice itself says.

• Check recent delivery notes and stock against the product names, batch codes and dates in each notice.
• Remember drinks, mixers and cordials. They are easy to forget when you check food stock.
• Keep supplier and batch information, so you can tell quickly what came in and from whom.
• Follow what each notice says to do. It differs from one alert to the next.
• When a supplier product is recalled for an allergen, review the allergen information for any dish or drink that uses it.
• Write down what you found and what you did, with the date.

We keep a live list of current FSA alerts at chefsrecords.com/food-alerts/. The ChefsRecords app does not track or send recall alerts. What it does is help you keep the records you would want to hand when you check: deliveries recorded with the supplier, stock with use-by dates, and incidents with corrective actions.