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A second customer has died after eating an improperly labeled product from Pret A Manger, the sandwich chain confirmed ina statement posted to Twitter early Sunday.
COYO, however,denied the claimsthat it supplied the ingredient in question in a separate statement on its own site, calling Pret’s stance “unfounded.”
“The dairy-free product we provided to Pret in December 2017, at the time of this tragedy, is not linked to the product we recalled in February 2018,” COYO reps said. “Pret’s inability to provide us with a batch code, despite several requests, has severely limited our ability to investigate this further.”
In 2016, another Pret customer, a 15-year-old girl from West London,died from an allergic reaction to the breadin an olive tapenade and artichoke sandwich.
Natasha Ednan-Laperouse went into cardiac arrest after eating the baguette, which she bought in the Heathrow airport in London before boarding a flight,according to CNN. It contained sesame, which she was allergic to.
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“Our beloved daughter died in a tragedy that should never have happened and we believe that this inquest has shown that she died because of inadequate food labelling laws,” said the girl’s father, Nadim Ednan-Laperouse, after the hearing, according totheUK Times. “It feels to us that if Pret A Manger were following the law, then the law was playing Russian roulette with our daughter’s life. It’s clear that the food labelling laws as they stand today are not fit for purpose and it is now time to change the law.”
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When Ednan-Laperouse started to react to the bread mid-flight, her father injected her twice with an Epipen, but she had a heart attack while the plane was landing and was declared dead at the hospital.
“We are deeply sorry for Natasha’s death. We cannot begin to understand the pain the family have felt, do feel and continue to feel,” said Pret A Manger CEO Clive Schlee. “All of us at Pret want meaningful change to come from this tragedy and we will make sure that it will.”
Neither Pret A Manger and nor COYO reps immediately responded to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
