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  • Man reportedly eats strawberry with needle inside, police confirm 4 ‘contamination’ incidents

Man reportedly eats strawberry with needle inside, police confirm 4 ‘contamination’ incidents

'If in doubt, throw them out': Needles in strawberries prompt warning Contaminated strawberries, Queensland – update 1 - Queensland Police News
Rhonda Young | 16 September, 2018, 14:25

"It's just a frightful situation for everyone, not just the farmer involved".

"While it is expected that berries picked early last week would now not be useable, many people freeze the fruit for later use", she said.

"I don't know anything, at this stage, I don't know anything, I'm like you guys, I want to find out".

Only weeks ago, some supermarkets dropped the price of strawberries as low as $1 per punnet to help suppliers move tonnes of excess produce.

Strawberries Australia's industry development officer Jennifer Rowling told the ABC that the industry is "devastated by this incident and it's distressing to think that someone's done something like this".

So, after months of picking and planting, devastated farmers have seen hundreds of thousands of berries simply go to waste.

Investigators have also now confirmed a fourth contamination incident as having occurred in a punnet of strawberries.

Mr Tran says he just wants answers like everyone else.

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"Our waste has hit such a crisis today ... it's just devastating", Ms Schultz told her Facebook followers.

It's unclear if the Delightful Strawberries brand comes from the same farm or a different region.

"A lot of growers are feeling the pressure at this time of year".

"He didn't get hurt or anything - didn't get pricked", she said.

"We're almost at that point of cost of production being greater than what we're selling them for".

Six brands of strawberries are believed to have been targeted in a needle sabotage spanning four states, with police unsure if it is the same ploy or a copycat.

Queensland Acting Chief Superintendent Terry Lawrence said on September 12 that the police were in contact with the farm operators and Woolworths representatives, and that they believed that the offender contaminated the stock intentionally.

It was the fifth shocking incident to be reported this week.

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"Driving up the coast when Hoani Hearne bites through a strawberry and swallows half a sewing needle", he wrote.

While no cases of contaminated strawberries have been detected in South Australia, health authorities issued an immediate recall.

'Queensland Health has warned people should cut up all strawberries before consuming them'.

"Farmers are really nervous about it, obviously, and devastated something as terrible as this would happen to the industry", Ms Rowling said.

"Luckily he'd pulled it back out of his mouth", Stevenson said.

An update on the investigation was released amid what authorities said was thought to be a "copycat incident" and provided a photo in relation to it.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has voiced her anger at the situation and is urging anyone with information to come forward, while the state's Chief Health Officer, Dr Jeanette Young, is warning people buying any brand of strawberries to be careful and to cut them up before eating them.

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