HEALTH authorities are warning people who have bought strawberries in Queensland, NSW and Victoria to throw the punnets out after several incidents of needles being found in strawberries sold at Woolworths.
Queensland Health and Queensland Police today took the extraordinary step to urge people who bought strawberries across the eastern seaboard in the past week to throw them out after three separate incidents in Queensland and Victoria.
Police suspect the needles were deliberately planted in the punnets with the culprit intending to cause ‘grievous bodily harm or other objectives’.
The contaminated strawberries come from one farm and are sold under the brands ‘Berry Obsession’ and ‘Berrylicious’. They are sold from Woolworths.
It comes as a 21-year-old Burpengary man ended up in hospital after he swallowed part of a needle when he bit into a strawberry on Monday.
Two more incidents in Victoria were confirmed yesterday.
“When I bit into one I felt like a sharp snap and my knee jerk reaction was to swallow and what was left was half a sewing needle,” said the Burpengary man.
“I’m just in shock, you don’t expect that.”
The young man said he suffered abdominal pain after swallowing the needle but that when he had an Xray at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital nothing was found.
The ground-down sewing needles were found in strawberries sold at a Woolworths store in Strathpine and two in Victoria.
It’s believed the strawberries were sourced from two farms on the Sunshine Coast.
Queensland Health chief health officer Jeanette Young urged people to throw out any strawberries they may have bought recently.
“If they’ve bought strawberries in Queensland, NSW and Victoria since early last week they should dispose of them,” she said.
Consumers will be able to buy strawberries again from tomorrow when stock is replaced.
A Woolworths spokesperson said the brand has been “temporarily withdrawn” from shelves wherever they are supplied.
“Woolworths takes food safety very seriously and we are looking into these claims with our supplier,” a statement said.
Queensland Police and Queensland Health are set to address the media about this issue this afternoon.
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