Tragic cookie accident led to the death of the older woman after shopping at the popular supermarket chain

After taking a single bite of a cookie at a Safeway -Supermarkt, an older Washington woman died of a serious allergic reaction -and now her family is looking for justice.

Peggy Bryant, 78, died tragically in 2023 after taking a bite of a peanut butter cookie incorrectly labeled as a oatmeal pauses while shopping in a safeway in Duvall. She was only months away from celebrating her 60th wedding anniversary with her high school, King 5 News reported.

Now, two years later, the Van Bryant family has filed a lawsuit at the federal court against the popular supermarket chain, in search of accountability for what they think that a completely prevented tragedy was.

“The last few minutes of my mother were tragic and terrible and painful,” Lisa Bishop, the daughter of Bryant, told King 5 News.

“Do the right thing,” she added. “I don’t want it to happen to someone else. Labels are there for a reason and I don’t want someone else to die from wrong label. ‘

On April 7, 2023, Bryant had just finished shopping when she decided to open one of her favorite treats – a oatmeal pauscake that she only bought a few minutes earlier.

After only one bite, however, she realized that something terribly wrong was-what a safe in-eat-havermout-row cookie was actually filled with peanut butter.

“She realized that the cookie she ate was actually a peanut butter cookie,” Bishop told King News. “And she is deadly allergic to nuts, peanuts.”

Bryant was rushed to a nearby hospital, but tragically succumbed to the serious allergic reaction within the hour.

A report from a coroner later confirmed that anaphylaxis and a life-threatening allergic reaction was the cause of her death, according to her son-in-law, Greg Bishop, King News reported.

“When she got the blood results back, he said it was clear anaphylaxis,” Greg Bishop told the outlet.

“Her blood vessels were actually broken down.”

After the devastating death of Bryant, the health department carried out an inspection and requested a recall of the incorrectly labeled product – a Safeway guideline ultimately paid, according to the outlet.

However, Bryant’s family believes that they have a duty to prevent that similar incidents occur again, especially because the death of their loved one could easily have been avoided by the chain.

“I knew we just had to do something,” Lisa told King News and added how the mistake changed their families forever.

“Just growing up with her, she was just always filled with joy and pleasure,” she remembered.

The family’s lawsuit, submitted to the federal court, seeks responsibility for the fatal confusion and is intended to emphasize the crucial importance of good food labeling to prevent further tragedies.

“Do the right one,” Lisa claimed.

Last year, órla Baxendale, a British ballet dancer originally from Helmshore, East Lancashire, but based in New York City, Tragically enough, anaphylactic shock and died after consuming vanilla -florentine cookies that contains peanuts.

The cookies, which were bought in the store of a Leonard stew in Connecticut, were then recalled because of the packaging that did not have a peanut allergy warning.

In May 2024, her family filed a lawsuit and accused the grocer and manufacturer who was united of ‘carefree and negligent’ to cause the death of Baxendale.

Both companies were mentioned in the court case, together with various employees of Stew Leonard.

Baxendale, who had a serious peanut allergy, had moved from England to New York City to pursue a career as a dancer and was in ‘the prime of her life’, according to the court case that was filed at the Superior Court in Waterbury.

The complaint, assessed by DailyMail.com, stated that Baxendale had a known serious peanut allergy and she, “like all consumers, trusted at the manufacturer and seller to correctly label the package sold to the general public.”

The cookies she consumed ‘contained, among other things, not -declared peanuts and other well -known allergens’, even though they are not labeled according to the complaint.

The suit claimed that cookies United did not properly labeled that the Florentine cookies contain peanuts before the distribution.

According to the suit, the employees of 11 Stew Leonard were ‘informed by e -mail’ of the change in ingredients, including the ‘addition of peanuts to the cookie recipe in July 2023, about six months before the death of Baxendale.

The manufacturer then sent ‘bulk package’ with a label with the cookies that contained allergens in October of that year – including peanuts.

Baxendale, however, consumed a cookie that was not correctly labeled to indicate the ingredient change in January 2024.

She went into an anaphylactic shock and an epipen was administered, but “because of the severity of her allergy it was not effective,” said family lawyer Marijo C. Adime at the time.

The suit accused Stew Leonard’s of ignoring warnings from the manufacturer and claimed that the store did not update product labels after it had received a notification of a change in ingredients.

“The failure to label the package well prior to the distribution and sale of the Florentine cookies (s) was coarse, intentional, reckless, callig, indifferent to human life, and a delicious violation because the manufacturer and seller were obliged to declare the ingredients properly,” read the lawsuit.

Furthermore, it claimed that the systems that Leonard’s had introduced to maintain and update labels are ‘broken, unreliable, inherently dangerous, not dependent, unreliable, restless, erratic and regrettable’.

The lawsuit did not look for -specified monetary and punitive damage.