Tragic cookie accident kills elderly woman after shopping in popular supermarket chain

An elderly Washington woman died of a severe allergic reaction after buying a bite of cookies from a Safeway grocery store – now her family is seeking justice.

Peggy Bryant, 78, took a bite of peanut butter cookies and died in 2023 while shopping in Safeway in Duvall. She’s just a few months away from her high school lover celebrating her 60th anniversary King 5 News Report.

Now, two years later, Kobe’s family has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the popular supermarket chain in search of what they believe is a completely preventable tragedy.

Kobe’s daughter Lisa Bishop told King 5 News that my mom’s last few minutes were like miserable, horrible and painful. ”

“Do the right thing.” “I don’t want it to happen to other people. There is a reason for labeling, I don’t want others to die by mislabeling.

On April 7, 2023, Kobe just decided to open one of his favorite snacks – the oatmeal raisin cookies I bought a few minutes ago.

But, with just one bite, she realized that there was a lot of problems–that would have been a safe oatmeal raisin cookie, actually full of peanut butter.

“She realized the cookies she was eating were actually peanut butter cookies,” Bishop told Kings News. “And she was allergic to nuts, peanuts.”

Bryant miserably took a bite of a peanut butter cookie in 2023, when he was mislabeled as oatmeal raisins while shopping at Safeway in Duvall

Kobe’s tragic death comes months before she prepares to celebrate her 60th anniversary with her high school lover

Kobe was taken to a nearby hospital but succumbed to a severe allergic reaction within an hour.

According to her son Greg Bishop, the coroner’s report later confirmed that the allergic reaction was the cause of her death.

Greg Bishop told The Outlet that when they get blood results, it was obviously an allergic reaction. ”

“Her blood vessels have basically broken down.”

According to Bryant’s devastating death, the health department conducted an inspection and asked for a recall of the wrongly labeled product – according to the media, the Safeway that was ultimately compliant with the directive.

But Kobe’s family believes it’s their responsibility to prevent similar incidents from happening again, especially because the chain can easily avoid the death of their loved ones.

Lisa told Kings News: “I know we just need to do something.” He added how mistakes changed their families forever.

“Just growing up with her, she was always full of joy and fun,” she recalls.

On April 7, 2023, Kobe just decided to open one of her favorite snacks – the oatmeal raisin cookies she bought a few minutes ago – but after only one bite, she realized the cookies were stuffed with peanut butter

Kobe was taken to a nearby hospital but succumbed to a severe allergic reaction within an hour

The coroner later confirmed that the allergic reaction – a life-threatening allergic reaction – was the cause of her death, and her son and law confirmed that “her blood vessels have basically broken down”

The family seeks a fatal mix of liability for the lawsuit filed in federal court and is designed to emphasize the importance of proper food labels to prevent any further tragedy.

Lisa asserted, “Do the right thing.”

Last year, British ballerina Órla Baxendale, originally from East Lancashire but based in New York City, was sadly trapped in an allergic shock and died after eating vanilla Florence cookies containing peanuts.

The cookies were purchased from the Connecticut Stew Leonard Store and were later recalled because the packaging did not have a peanut allergy warning.

In May 2024, her family filed a lawsuit accusing grocer and manufacturer Cookies of uniformly causing Baxendale’s death toll.

Both companies were named in the lawsuit, as well as several Leonard stewed employees.

Baxendale, suffering from severe peanut allergy, has moved from England to New York City to pursue a career in dance and is at the “peak of life.”

The complaint reviewed by Dailymail.com noted that Baxendale has a known severe peanut allergy and that she “like all consumers, relying on manufacturers and sellers to correctly mark packages sold to the public.”

After Bryant’s devastating death, the health department conducted an inspection and asked for a recall of the wrongly labeled product – ultimately following the directive Safeway

The family seeks a fatal mix of liability for lawsuits filed in federal court and is intended to emphasize the importance of appropriate food labels to prevent any further tragedy

Kobe’s family believes it’s their responsibility to prevent similar incidents from happening again – especially because the death of their loved ones is easily stopped – Lisa Bishop (pictured) said: “My mom’s last few minutes were miserable and painful and painful, while emphasizing the importance of food labels

However, according to the complaint, although not marked as “unannounced peanuts and other known allergens”, the cookies she consumed “among other matters, not yet announced peanuts and other known allergens.”

The lawsuit says Cookies United failed to correctly mark Florence cookies containing peanuts before being distributed.

According to the lawsuit, 11 Stew Leonard employees “notified by email” the changes in ingredients, including “adding peanuts to cookie recipes about six months before Baxendale died in July 2023.

The manufacturer then sent a “bulk packaging” that contained a label indicating that in October of that year, the cookies contained allergens (including peanuts).

However, Baxendale consumed an unmarked cookie to indicate the January 2024 ingredient changes.

Family lawyer Marijo C. Adime said in a statement at the time that she was trapped in the management of allergic shocks and epipen, but “this is not effective due to the severity of the allergies.”

The lawsuit accused Stew Leonard of ignoring the manufacturer’s alert and claimed that the store would not update product labels once notices of ingredient changes were received.

“It is a serious negligence, intentional, reckless, indifferent, indifferent to human life and a violation of the manufacturer and seller as required by law to correctly declare the ingredients.

It further claims that Leonard’s system can maintain and update the tag “broken, unreliable, inherently dangerous, unreliable, distrustful, unstable, unstable and pathetic”.

The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary and punitive damages.