Deadly Bite: How a Single Mislabeled Cookie Led to a Mother’s Fatal Collapse and a Shocking Lawsuit Against a Major Supermarket
But she realized within moments that it wasn’t a cookie that was safe for her to eat.
The deceased woman was shopping at a local Safeway when the incident took place
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“She realized that the cookie she was eating was actually a peanut butter cookie,” her daughter Lisa Bishop told King 5 News.
The bereaved daughter noted that her mother was “deathly allergic to nuts, peanuts.”
Peggy instantly had an allergic reaction and was rushed to the nearby hospital. However, she did not survive.
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The wife and mother passed away within an hour of biting into the cookie.
Her passing took place just months before she and her high school sweetheart were meant to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary.
For her loved ones, the loss of the beloved woman was compounded by how Peggy had to unnecessarily suffer before breathing her last.
Peggy took a bite of what she thought was an oatmeal raisin cookie
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“The last few minutes of my mom’s like were tragic and awful and painful,” Lisa told the outlet.
Peggy’s son-in-law, Greg Bishop, said the coroner’s report confirmed that she passed away due to anaphylaxis, caused by a life-threatening allergic reaction.
“When they got the blood results back, he said it was clearly anaphylaxis,” he said.
“Her blood vessels had basically broken down,” the son-in-law said
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About a month after Peggy’s passing, a voluntary recall of the oatmeal raisin cookies at Safeway’s Duvall location was issued Albertsons Companies, Inc., the company that owns Safeway.
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