Needle found in Auckland strawberry punnet

People are being urged to cut up their strawberries after a needle was found in a punnet sold in Auckland.

Police are urging anyone who has bought Choice brand strawberries to return them to where they bought them after needles were found in a punnet sold by St Luke's Countdown in Auckland

Police say a person found the needles before anyone had eaten the strawberries.

The Ministry for Primary Industries says the fruit came from Western Australia.

Countdown has pulled all the brand of strawberries from its shelves, as well as from FreshChoice and SuperValue last week.

Choice is not one of the brands affected across in Australia and it is still on sale there.

Woolworths NZ, parent company of Countdown, FreshChoice and SuperValue stores, has pulled all Choice strawberries from the shelves.

Countdown, which owns 181 supermarkets across New Zealand, has urged shoppers to cut up any strawberries already purchased.

In a statement, MPI says it's working with the police and Countdown to investigate the incident.

"MPI supports the action taken by the supermarket in removing the implicated strawberries from their stores.

"Anyone who has purchased this brand of Australian strawberries should, as a precaution, return them to the retailer."

MPI says it's closely monitoring the situation and based on current information, it did not believe further action was required.

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1 comment

Idiots!!!

Posted on 24-09-2018 11:47 | By The Professor

The idiots who are contaminating strawberries (a good guess would be copycats) are obviously too dumb to realise what their actions are going to do. Apart from putting people's lives at risk, they will force supermarket chains to request that all their suppliers install metal detectors in their processing lines. This inevitable move will cost the produce industry millions, all of which will have to be clawed back through the customer - prices will need to increase!!! ABOSOLUTE CLOWNS!!!


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