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EAN 4088600406640 · specially selected · Meats and their products
Identity
Name
minted lamb shank
Barcode (EAN/GTIN)
4088600406640
Brand / Manufacturer
specially selected
Category
Meats and their products
Country of Origin
United Kingdom
GS1 Prefix
Germany (GS1 prefix 408)
Description
minted lamb shank comes in a 400 g pack. Ingredients are declared as LAMB (78%), Water, Port, Brown Sugar, Lamb Stock (Lamb Meat Concentrate, Yeast Extract, Sugar, Cornflour, Salt, Onion Concentrate, Thyme Oil, Rosemary Oil), Maize Starch, Redcurrant Jelly (Glucose, Redcurrant Juice From Concentrate, Gelling Agent: Pectins; Acid: Citric Acid; Acidity Regulator: Sodium Citrates), Tomato Purée, Salt, Balsamic Vinegar, (White Wine Vinegar, Grape Must), Garlic Powder. Country of origin on the record: the United Kingdom. The record shows a NOVA classification of 4 (ultra-processed food and drink product) and Eco-Score E. It sits in the Meats and their products category. It is flagged for gluten under the allergen labelling rules.
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🔍 What we found about this product
A factual report of what public registries and product databases returned for this EAN. We do not authenticate products or issue safety verdicts — we only report what we found.
Identifier checks
📋 EAN format: the GTIN-13 mod-10 checksum is consistent with the GS1 standard (format check only; does not authenticate the physical product)
📋 GS1 prefix 408 indicates the issuing office in Germany (this is the country where the brand owner registered the EAN; it is not necessarily where the product was manufactured. Source: GS1 country code list)
📋 Brand entries found: no entry for specially selected in the Wikidata brand registry (our coverage of Wikidata is partial; absence is not a finding either way)
📋 Listed in 2 of the public product catalogues we check: Open Food Facts, Nudger GTIN dataset (CC-BY 4.0) (catalogue presence only; the listing itself does not authenticate the product)
Registry scans
📋 Recall registry scan returned 0 matches (sources scanned: CPSC, FDA, RAPEX, Health Canada, NHTSA. Coverage gaps exist; we cannot speak to records outside these registries)
📋 Substance database scan returned 33 name matches with H-codes / regulated-substance entries (see substances section. This is a name match against label/ingredient text only; it does not confirm batch presence)
📋 Banned-ingredient scan (EU Cosmetic Annex II) returned 0 matches (source: EU Reg. 1223/2009. Scanned against available label text only)
📋 Certifications listed in our databases: none found (registries scanned: EU Ecolabel, US ENERGY STAR, US EPA Safer Choice. Many legitimate products are not enrolled in these schemes)
📋 Medical device registry: not listed in US FDA GUDID or EU EUDAMED (most consumer products are not medical devices and would not be expected to appear)
Sources scanned: GS1 country prefix · Wikidata brand registry · Open Beauty / Food Facts · USDA FDC Branded Foods · Nudger GTIN dataset · EU Safety Gate (RAPEX) · US CPSC · US FDA recalls · Health Canada Recalls · NHTSA recalls · ECHA SVHC · REACH Annex XVII · EU RoHS · Stockholm POPs · CLP Annex VI · EU Cosmetic Annex II · EU Ecolabel · US ENERGY STAR · US EPA Safer Choice · US FDA GUDID · EU EUDAMED. Last refreshed: .
About this section. We aggregated what we found across 24 public registries and product databases as of . This is not an authentication, certification, or safety endorsement. Coverage gaps in our source data exist. For definitive verification, please contact the manufacturer or the relevant regulator directly.
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Provenance
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