Two recalls on 9 September: one has four days left, the other keeps until next March

Within eleven minutes on the evening of 9 September the NVWA published two food safety warnings: AH Glutenvrij Speculaasbrok from Albert Heijn at 18:28, and De Bonte Weide raw-milk goat kefir at 18:39. Neither is a straightforward bad batch: one label leaves something out, the other pack is still in the fridge. Start with the sum that decides whether you act tonight: take the best-before date printed on the pack and subtract today. The kefir says 14-9-2026, four days from now, which means most of what was sold has not been finished yet and is standing in a fridge door right now. The speculaasbrok says 26-3-2027, a further 197 days, so it will not quietly expire; it will sit at the back of a cupboard until next spring. The same warning means raid the fridge tonight in one case and check the cupboard now in the other, a difference of 193 days between two dates.

• AH Glutenvrij Speculaasbrok (Albert Heijn): allergens may be missing from the label; the product contains almond. Best before 26-3-2027. Published 9 September 2026 at 18:28. (source 1)
• Geitenkefir 500 ml (De Bonte Weide): shiga toxin-producing E. coli may be present; the official wording is do not eat or drink it. Article number 32201, barcode 8719326199504, best before 14-9-2026. Published 9 September 2026 at 18:39. (source 2)
• The Dutch recall tracker Productwaarschuwing.nl added two things the NVWA pages leave out on the same day: the kefir is a raw-milk product sold through Ekoplaza, with the risk described as especially high for young children, pregnant women, people with reduced immunity and older adults, and both products can be returned to the shop for a refund. (source 3)
• The same outlet states that the speculaasbrok problem is a wrong label on the pack, that any Albert Heijn store refunds the purchase amount, and that online orders use a separate form. (source 4)

The speculaasbrok deserves a paragraph of its own, because it lands squarely on the people who do read labels. A product sold as Glutenvrij is bought mainly by households where someone cannot eat gluten, which is exactly the group most used to reading an ingredient list end to end. What went wrong here is not the gluten: it is that almond may not be printed. Free from one thing is not free from everything, and on a shelf those two look identical. If nobody in the house reacts to nuts this does not affect you, and the notice says allergens may be missing, not that the product itself is unsafe.

The kefir needs three numbers to match: article 32201, barcode 8719326199504 and best before 14-9-2026. All three have to agree before the bottle in your fridge is the one named. It is made from raw milk, which is why STEC turns up in this category at all. One last thing that matters if you are new here: NVWA warnings are published in Dutch, and food and consumer products are two separate mailing lists. Sign up for one and the other will never reach your inbox.

Products

AH Glutenvrij Speculaasbrok (Albert Heijn) and Geitenkefir 500 ml (De Bonte Weide, sold through Ekoplaza)

Published

9 September 2026, at 18:28 and 18:39

How to identify

Speculaasbrok: best before 26-3-2027. Kefir: article 32201, barcode 8719326199504, best before 14-9-2026

Risk

Speculaasbrok: the allergen almond may be missing from the label. Kefir: STEC may be present

What to do

The kefir notice says do not eat or drink it; both products can be returned to the shop for a refund

Note

Food warnings and consumer-product warnings are two separate NVWA subscriptions

Hokimi field note: neither warning goes by purchase date, only by the best-before date printed on the pack. The supermarket receipt will not help; the box will.