NYC dancer dies after eating mislabeled cookie with undeclared peanuts
A New York City dancer went into anaphylactic shock and died after eating cookies not labeled as containing peanuts, prompting a recall of the baked goods in question, officials said Wednesday.
A New York City dancer went into anaphylactic shock and died after eating cookies not labeled as containing peanuts, prompting a recall of the baked goods in question, officials said Wednesday.
Órla Baxendale, 25, died Jan. 11 after consuming Vanilla Florentine Cookies that “contained undisclosed peanuts” and were sold at popular regional supermarket Stew Leonard's, the woman's lawyer Marijo Adimey said in statement.
“Her sudden loss is not only a personal tragedy for her family and friends but also a significant loss to the artistic community,” Adimey said.
No lawsuit has been filed yet in this matter.
Customers push shopping carts outside a Stew Leonard's supermarket in New Jersey on May 12, 2020. Angus Mordant / Bloomberg via Getty Images fileStew Leonard's has seven stores in New York City bedroom communities, though the cookies that led to Baxendale's death were only sold at the chain's locations in Danbury and Newington, Connecticut, officials said. The tragic mishap prompted the Connecticut Department of Public Health to issue a recall for those cookies.
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