AUSTRALIA: Saboteur putting metal in meat - (The Courier Mail/ABC News Online)
April 6, 2008 – 8:52 pmhttp://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23492676-2,00.html#
Deliberate contamination of uncooked meat and frozen products has forced removal of the food from supermarkets and sparked an Australia-wide police hunt for the culprit.
Police say metal objects up to six centimetres long were found in uncooked, pre-packaged meat and frozen products.
The stories say that a distinct metal object, which authorities will not identify, has been found in four products bought from Woolworths, Coles and Bi-Lo stores in Queensland, NSW and Western Australia.
The Queensland police-led investigation was launched after Coles reported two incidents last month where consumers found metal in their food bought from their Tweed Heads store on March 18 and a Brisbane Bi-Lo store at Alderley.
Detective Superintendent Gayle Hogan, head of the Major Crime Investigation Group, was cited as saying to date no one had consumed the contaminant, adding, “As far as we are concerned we don’t believe this is accidental, we believe it has been deliberately placed […]
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