Food contamination articles

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A Kentucky woman said she found a dead frog in a can of green beans she purchased at a grocery store.

http://www.lex18.com/news/frog-found-in-canned-food

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A man has filed a lawsuit against the maker of Monster Energy Drinks. He claims he found a dead mouse at the bottom of his can, and he has the lab work to prove it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42328430...consumer_news/

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A Texas woman said she wants a blood test performed on a cook at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Houston after she found blood on her french fries.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/07/...7161309595400/

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Ken Wieczerza usually loves a slice of leftover pizza from the refrigerator.

But when he bit into this particular piece of cold Pizza Hut pie, he recoiled when his teeth encountered an unexpected ingredient: a blue bandage with what appeared to be remnants of dried blood.

http://www.timesunion.com/local/arti...ge-1628158.php

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First, a bandage turned up recently in a pizza in Clifton Park.

Now, another one has been discovered in a dish of ice cream in Albany.

http://www.timesunion.com/local/arti...od-1728277.php

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Victoria Jean Harrah sat down around noon to eat a freshly grilled ham and cheese sandwich with her fiance when she decided to warm up a plate of her favorite canned ravioli.

But instead of saucy goodness, the 48-year-old Mims, Fla., woman said she got a crunchy mouthful of what she described as a hairy-legged spider tucked into a pocket of pasta.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/art...ad-spider.html

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Fast food giant KFC has apologised to a UK student after he came across what appeared to be a chicken's brain in his meal.

http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8589...in-in-kfc-meal

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A court has heard that a mother found a used, bloodied syringe in a loaf she had bought from Tesco. She was making a sandwich for her 10-year-old son at the time, and she was said to have been very distressed by the discovery.

http://money.aol.co.uk/2013/02/05/mo...af-from-tesco/

[A Turtle Named Mack]

The hypodermic syringe situation screamed after-production tampering to me as soon as I started to read it. But then the next question is, what can you do to prevent it? Unlike the OTC medicine bottles which are already rigid and just needed security seals, bread wrappers are soft, and it would probably be prohibitive to make them hard enough to avoid tampering. You could certainly seal the bags the way so many other things wrapped in flexible wraps are, but what them - a needle pokes through so easily. Worse, chemicals can be injected. So much of the functioning of a modern society is reliant on people generally observing some basic standards of decency.

We reported in September last year how Katie Crabtree, a 31 -year-old mother-of-two from Stockport, bit into a dead, sliced, rodent tucked into a Tesco sandwich. She complained to the store and to head office, and was eventually given £10 compensation.

"Lady, we thought you knew the 'ham. sand.' was short for hamster sandwich."

[Avril]

Originally Posted by A Turtle Named Mack

So much of the functioning of a modern society is reliant on people generally observing some basic standards of decency.

That's true in so many ways. And while we might, in theory, be able to make all our food completely safe from such things, through hard packaging, it would be expensive, impractical, and ultimately dangerously wasteful.

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A law banning horses from Romanian roads may be responsible for the surge in the fraudulent sale of horsemeat on the European beef market, a French politician said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...y-8489030.html

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A long-distance trucker is suing Coca-Cola after he almost swallowed a decomposed mouse from a bottle of premium orange juice owned by the famed cola maker.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/loc...197841611.html

[mags]

Why was he drinking OJ they owned anyway? Damn shoplifters.

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An Indian lamb takeaway curry tested during an investigation was contained a “mystery meat” amid fears it could have been from a dog.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...amb-curry.html

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Even in the best of circumstances, Dawson City's famed Sourtoe Cocktail doesn't go down smoothly.

On Saturday night, however, the cocktail's marquee ingredient -- an actual human toe -- went down a way it was never meant to.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/28/tr...toe/index.html

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As Shea Boman-Smead finished her bowl of cereal, she noticed a little something extra floating in the milk.

"As I was taking a drink, I noticed something long in there," she said, "and it was not shaped like the cereal.

"And I thought, there's absolutely no way ..."

Way: The 25-year-old said she thinks the object is a mouse femur.

http://www.kval.com/news/local/Woman...222376511.html

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McDonald's proved it hadn't served up any leaping lizards, after preliminary lab tests laid to rest the reptile ruckus that erupted when a customer claimed to have found a baby lizard in her chicken sausage McMuffin.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101013231