Warning over supplements sold by diet guru Tim Spector…after they’re found to be laced with ‘small pieces of metal’
A ‘microbiome-boosting’ supplement sold by diet and nutrition guru Professor Tim Spector has been urgently recalled due to possible contamination with dangerous shards of stone and metal.
Regulator the Food Standards Agency (FSA) issued a recall of the ZOE Daily 30+ 7 Day supplement pack this morning.
They warned the supplement, which comes as a coarse powder containing 30 different plants, and boasts how it is ‘naturally high in copper’, ‘may contain small stones and small pieces of metal’.
Waitrose, the only supermarket which sells the ZOE pack for £13.50, issued the recall for batches with a best before date of September 30 next year.
It has not been detailed how stone and metal have made its way into the product.
FSA said those who have purchased the affected batches should return them to Waitrose for a full refund.
ZOE, the diet company co-founded by Professor Spector, launched the Daily 30+ range earlier this year.
It aims to help digestion by delivering material from 30 plants, including seven fruit and vegetables, eight mushrooms, five herbs, six seeds, three nuts and two legumes and wholegrains.
A trendy supplement sold by diet and nutrition guru Professor Tim Spector has been urgently recalled due to possible contamination with dangerous shards of stone and metal
Professor Spector launched the Daily 30+ range earlier this year
Waitrose, the only supermarket which sells the ZOE pack for £13.50, issued the recall for batches with a best before date of September 30 next year
The supplement is designed to be added to savoury meals such as pasta or grilled meats and vegetables, eggs on toast, salads or breakfast bowls.
Each scoop contains 5g of fibre, about a sixth of an adults recommended intake.
The ZOE website states the variety of plant foods contained in the product help support a healthy gut microbiome, the collection of beneficial organisms like bacteria that live in your digestive system.
This in turn helps support normal bowel movements and the high-density minerals and vitamins therein also helps boost energy levels, its creators claim.
Dragons Den’s star and ZOE investor Steven Bartlett previously described the supplement as a ‘revolution’.
‘No ultra-processed pills, no shakes, just real food,’ a testimonial on the ZOE website reads.
ZOE advertisements posted on social media featuring Bartlett were previously been banned for ‘misleading’ customers by failing to declare his financial interest in the brand.
A ZOE spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘By initiating this recall we are acting out of an abundance of caution to uphold our high quality standards.
‘The issue was discovered at one of our critical control points in the supply chain, and therefore is being fully assessed.’
‘We take product quality very seriously and seek to address the issue promptly and effectively. Customers will be given the option to have their order refunded or replaced.’
