More than 600 items for sale at an Oxford Street candy shop have been incinerated after a Trading Standards raid.
The central London store had American cereal, crisps and fizzy drinks seized by Westminster City Council’s Environmental Health team.
The products, valued at more than £2,800, contained additives, colourings and e-numbers that were either banned in the UK or above the legal limit.
Adam Hug, leader of Westminster City Council, said: “We are continuing to make the lives of unscrupulous traders a nightmare through regular enforcement action.”
Several of the chocolate bars seized in the raid on 6 September were not labelled in English, meaning consumers were unable to check the products for ingredients, sell-by dates or allergens, the council said.
Trading Standards teams also uncovered Lucky Charms cereal with more than double the UK limit for artificial food colourings.
The shop had been found to be selling “carcinogenic” American sweets back in February, the council said.
In the past three months, 2,374 non-compliant products were destroyed from the premises.
These included Swedish Fish and Hot Tamales sweets, which are banned in the UK.
Mr Hug warned that there would be more raids on shops in the coming weeks.
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