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Glass found in Heinz frozen vegies

An Auckland consumer found pieces of broken glass in her Heinz Wattie's frozen peas and corn.

Monique Peters said she was eating a prawn and vegetable fried rice meal when she felt something hard and sharp in her mouth. She pulled the object out and found it was a piece of glass, stuff.co.nz reports.

She said she was not sure at the time which ingredients of the meal the glass had come from.

Later in the week she encountered the same thing while eating vegetables from the same packet with her roast lamb dinner.

Peters said she found three pieces of glass in her food in total.

"I was really shocked," she said.

While she was not harmed by the glass, she said she was lucky she had not swallowed it without noticing.

It could have been a different story if a child was eating the vegetables, she said.

"It was quite sharp, quite raggedy and quite large," she said, adding she had been put off eating frozen vegetables for a while.

The Coatesville woman contacted Heinz Wattie's, which thanked her for bringing the issue to its attention and asked her to send the glass to them.

Peters said the company seemed "a little bit relaxed".

"I definitely felt a little bit angry last night," she said.

Heinz Wattie's spokesman Paul Hemsley said the company took such reports "extremely seriously".

A full investigation was already underway and the packaging and "foreign objects" would be collected on Friday (20 March).

The investigation would look at when each of the ingredients was harvested and processed, and when they were packaged for sale.

"Because there is specialised equipment for detecting foreign objects on the processing lines for these ingredients as well as manual observation, there is obviously some surprise at the presence of such items, but the investigation will be full and thorough, and nothing will be ruled out," he said.

"At this stage we can only apologise to the consumer, and thank her for reporting the matter…Thankfully such reported incidents are rare."

 

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