Glass in sliced loaf! Is there a trading standards here?

mia100max


Joined: 19/03/2008
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Message Posted:
04/03/2011 10:02

I recently bought a sliced loaf from one of the local supermarkets (own brand) and later that day I made cheese sandwiches for my partner & myself. Whilst he was eating his, he suddenly spat the bread from his mouth & it was covered in blood. When we looked in the bread, there was a jagged piece of glass about the size of a 25 kuros coin with a distinctive pattern around the edge! It had seriously cut his tongue open which bled for about 2 hours.

I can only assume the glass was in the bread as I would of noticed it when spreading the butter & grating the cheese.

How can I officially complain about this, I dread to think of the outcome if a small child had eaten this?

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
04/03/2011 10:18

to the North Cyprus Consumer Association at http://www.cyprusconsumers.org

andrew4232



Joined: 04/07/2009
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Message Posted:
04/03/2011 11:24

i would have thought the first thing you do is contact the store you bought it from so that they can remove any further stock from sale while they look into it, and then if your getting no where think about trying to complain to an authority

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
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Message Posted:
04/03/2011 11:36

msg1...I don't think there's an "ANYTHING STANDARDS" .here........... With the exception of course being poor building standards...

Micho


Joined: 03/10/2010
Posts: 425

Message Posted:
04/03/2011 12:09

Which supermarket?

I believe that the store manager should know about it. Since he is not the one who makes the breads. And also is the bread supermarket brand or from a bakery?

mia100max


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Message Posted:
04/03/2011 12:19

It is a supermarket brand. I will go in today to tell them.

Whistler


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Message Posted:
04/03/2011 14:11

We`d all like to know which supermarket please.

AlsancakJack



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Message Posted:
04/03/2011 14:31

martinD41

Ref your message 4.

Please post relative to the title of the thread otherwise your postings will be deleted.

gates


Joined: 08/12/2008
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Message Posted:
04/03/2011 14:34

surly if you look in the bread now it would have glass in it could not be in one slice check the loaf out if there is no more then it could have been in one of the other ingredents or one of your storage units there is no come back here thats why you have to be carfull what you buy and were you shop not just food

mia100max


Joined: 19/03/2008
Posts: 404

Message Posted:
05/03/2011 19:46

I took it back & the manager said it must have been in the flour they use. They apologised but didn't even offer me a refund for the loaf!

Then blow me down but tonight I opened a new tub of clover & put some in my jacket potatoes and when I took the first few mouthfuls, I had to stop as it tasted of industrial cleaner! My partner's was ok as I had used the remains of the other tub in his.

Bought from a different store, I will be taking that back tomorrow!

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
05/03/2011 20:02

This sounds, definitely, like two unrelated cases of industrial sabotage - what else?

shrimp


Joined: 01/09/2010
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Message Posted:
05/03/2011 20:09

Unlucky or what! I remember years ago finding a sachet of shampoo in a pint of milk....it couldnt have fallen in, it would have to be squeezed through the top of the bottle. United dairies wanted me to hand it over to them but I took it to the trading standards and got a hamper full of dairy products in compensation.....quite a few years ago though now...

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
05/03/2011 21:10

I once had a worm in a salad bap. Complained to the shop, and they offered compensation if I didn't go to trading standards.

Four tiny cakes!!!

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
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Message Posted:
05/03/2011 21:44

I thought blackbirds ate worms sorry couldn't resist

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
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Message Posted:
05/03/2011 23:45

Nice one sienna..............but not this one................

LaptaMike


Joined: 07/10/2009
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Message Posted:
06/03/2011 01:29

Apparently when I was VERY young I used to eat worms Toddlers try eating all sorts of things though hehe

rosylee


Joined: 22/07/2010
Posts: 158

Message Posted:
06/03/2011 16:01

CONSUMER ADVICE /TRADING STANDARDS-OFFICE NUMBER...0392 228 46 83.

mia100max


Joined: 19/03/2008
Posts: 404

Message Posted:
07/03/2011 13:07

I have contacted Dairy Crest in the UK re the clover butter as I was violently sick later on that night. I still have the taste in my mouth 3 days later.

stockiefan


Joined: 04/05/2009
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Message Posted:
07/03/2011 17:23

Message 10, we bought clover, chucked it, it was off!!!