27 Nov 2018

Needles in fruit, veges 'isolated incidents' - Food Safety boss

From Morning Report, 8:27 am on 27 November 2018

A needle has been found inside a capsicum from a Tauranga supermarket. This comes just after a strawberry was found with a needle in it from Fresh Choice Geraldine on Saturday morning. These cases follow a huge contamination crisis in Australia where its strawberry industry was brought to its knees after several punnets of strawberries were found contaminated with sewing needles. MPI's Paul Dansted is director of food regulation at New Zealand Food Safety. He talks to Gyles Beckford.