In brief...Warning over mini-cup fruit jelly products

Parents and carers have been advised by the Food Standards Agency not to let children eat certain mini-cup fruit jelly products that contain Konjac because of the risk of choking on the sweets. The sweets have a number of different brand names, including ABC Mini Fruit Bites, New Choice Mini Fruit Gels and Rolin Mango Jelly Cup. The products have been linked to a number of choking deaths around the world, but none have been reported so far in the UK. Suzi Leather, FSA deputy chair, said, 'The weight of evidence clearly indicates that these products present a risk to...