diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 9d684f22..5565d4c6 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.16.0 // indirect
 	github.com/sergi/go-diff v1.2.0 // indirect
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.3.0 // indirect
-	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.8.4 // indirect
+	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.8.4
 	github.com/theupdateframework/notary v0.7.0 // indirect
 	github.com/urfave/cli v1.22.9
 	github.com/xeipuuv/gojsonpointer v0.0.0-20190809123943-df4f5c81cb3b // indirect
diff --git a/pkg/recipe/recipe.go b/pkg/recipe/recipe.go
index 92023379..0959c6be 100644
--- a/pkg/recipe/recipe.go
+++ b/pkg/recipe/recipe.go
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ func GetVersionLabelLocal(recipe Recipe) (string, error) {
 
 	for _, service := range recipe.Config.Services {
 		for label, value := range service.Deploy.Labels {
-			if strings.HasPrefix(label, "coop-cloud") {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(label, "coop-cloud") && strings.Contains(label, "version") {
 				return value, nil
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/recipe/recipe_test.go b/pkg/recipe/recipe_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..59a57ebc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/recipe/recipe_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package recipe
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestGetVersionLabelLocalDoesNotUseTimeoutLabel(t *testing.T) {
+	offline := true
+	recipe, err := Get("traefik", offline)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	for i := 1; i < 1000; i++ {
+		label, err := GetVersionLabelLocal(recipe)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+
+		// NOTE(d1): this is potentially quite a brittle unit test as it needs to
+		// hardcode the default timeout label to ensure that the label parser never
+		// returns it. hopefully this won't fail too often! if you're here because
+		// of a failure, just update the `defaultTimeoutLabel` value & permalink
+		// below
+		// https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/traefik/src/commit/ac3a47fe8ca3ef92db84f64cfedfbb348000faee/.env.sample#L2
+		defaultTimeoutLabel := "300"
+		assert.NotEqual(t, label, defaultTimeoutLabel)
+	}
+}