Wednesday 13 January 2016

Woman finds dead weasel in her ASDA salad




Warning: Everytime you buy a pre-prepared food from any store, give it a good lookover before eating!
Rifat Asghar, 42, was eating a carrot and sweetcorn meal from the supermarket in Bradford, Yorkshire, for lunch when a colleague spotted a matted lump of fur. On closer inspection, Ms Ashgar identified a leg and a tail, as well as what looked like an eye. She took the salad back to the shop where she claims she was offered a £5 voucher. An investigation revealed the 'foreign object' was a baby weasel and staff offered the advanced nurse practitioner £100 in vouchers - which she turned down.
Asda told her that the creature must have been picked up in a field during harvesting - and passed through the entire factory without being spotted! Ms Ashgar said she has been traumatised by the experience. She said: 'It has caused me a lot of trauma. I initially thought it was a mouse, and for about a week afterwards I had weird dreams about mice coming out my mouth.
'They say it was in there from when it was harvested. What happened to all the checks done after that happened?
If something like that can go through all their processes and checks it worries me.


An email from a team leader at the supermarket, said the specimen was sent for testing at a lab in London, which revealed it was a young common weasel.
The email said: 'The specimen was very badly damaged, showing some skin, fur, a leg joint, a foot and tail.
'It was concluded that the complaint specimen was most likely the remains of a young member of the species Mustela nivalis, the weasel.
'It is in the opinion of Insect Research and Development Limited that as these weasels would not usually come indoors, the specimen may have been accidentally harvested with one of the components of the salad.
Unfortunately, despite our best efforts and process controls it appears the foreign body has been picked up from the field during harvesting and has managed to by-pass all our trained eyes and washing processes.'
'We have also apologised directly and offered a gesture of goodwill to both Ms Asghar as well as well as her colleague, who originally purchased the product', the store said

Source: DailyMail

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