Although it is unpleasant to find a strange object in your food, not all foreign objects found in foods pose a significant health risk.
Manufacturers do what they can to prevent these items getting into your food, but inevitably there will be occasions when they do.
Below is a list of some commonly discovered foreign objects in food which do not cause harm to people and which we are unlikely to investigate.
- Fruit flies and green flies in fruit and vegetables
- Grubs in tinned vegetables
- Small stones and soil in fruit and vegetables
- Struvite crystals in canned fish
- Sugar crystals in sweet and chocolates
- Codworm in white fish
- Bakery char in bakery products
- Carbonised grease in bakery products
- Chocolate white 'mould'