Urgent advent calendar recall: Warning issued by Office for Product Safety and Standards over 2025 Yepoda Advent Calendar
An urgent warning has been issued over a 2025 advent calendar, with customers urged to "return it immediately".
An Advent calendar is being recalled - amid warnings it may cause a microbial that can lead to serious illness in humans, including pneumonia and sepsis, that studies show is "associated with significant morbidity and mortality".
The warning, from the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), is ordering consumers who have bought the 2025 Yepoda Advent Calendar to return it immediately - over fears the Cocoa Cloud Body Butter - in the eighth section of the calendar, is compromised and could pose a "microbiological risk".
The cosmetics calendar, originally priced at £346 and later reduced to £149, contains a range of beauty products - including the body butter. But the OPSS warned: "The product presents a microbiological risk due to the presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa."
Barcode 8721154343752 and batch number SR335, the calendars were produced in South Korea and the body butter is included as 'day 8'.
"Batch SR335 of this product presents a microbiological risk as testing has indicated that it loses efficacy overtime, leading to the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa," the OPSS recall said. "This microbial may pose a risk to consumers, particularly to those who are immunocompromised. The product does not meet the requirements of Regulation (EC) 1223/2009."
The notice added: "Owners are advised to stop using the product immediately. Further information has been provided by Yepoda via email to affected customers."
According to experts - including the World Health Organisation (WHO) - pseudomonas aeruginosa is highly resistant to antibiotics, with the organisation saying it "poses one of the greatest threats to humans in terms of antibiotic resistance".