Screw found in spaghetti

No_Hoper

Hi all,
This is absolutley genuine, I found a screw in my tin of heinz spaghetti yesterday and i'm not sure what to do or who to write to, can anyone help please??

Thanks

Zazen999

What to do - don't eat the screw

Who to write to: I think it would be Heinz, there should be an address on the tin.

MUMMYTO2BOYS

Screw in spaghetti?

Sounds like an adult fund raisind idea for Friday nights Children In Need

MUMMYTO2BOYS

[EMAIL="Consumer.Contact@uk.hjheinz.com"]mailto:Consumer.Contact@uk.hjheinz.com[/EMAIL]

0800 528 5757

Mark_Hewitt

Perhaps you could contact the Food Standards Agency?

Anihilator

Perharps you just shouldnt put a screw in there in the first place?

I'd be very surprised that if anywere during the production stage of spaghetti there was an area it could be contaminated by screws.

ShaneUK

Anihilator wrote: »

Perharps you just shouldnt put a screw in there in the first place?

I'd be very surprised that if anywere during the production stage of spaghetti there was an area it could be contaminated by screws.

It may have worked loose from machinery?

dizzybuff

they will want the whole tin and contents back... DONT EAT ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

scullster

Anihilator wrote: »

I'd be very surprised that if anywere during the production stage of spaghetti there was an area it could be contaminated by screws.

Have you ever seen a food canning plant? Contains machinery, conveyors etc... plenty of moving parts, and opportunity for a component failure to occur.

Or, non-chuffed employee.......

dickydonkin

ShaneUK has the likely answer.

It will almost certainly be a component from machinery, however, dont assume it will be from the Heinz factory.

It is likely that Heinz will get their cans delivered pre - made and the screw could easily have dropped into the empty tin during the manufacture of the can.

Usually in food processing factories, there will likely be a metal detector and possibly a magnetic device that will detect and/or remove any metal contamination prior to packaging.

With Heinz, you can guarantee that the contamination will be investigated thouroughly and the source identified. (er - not tomato source) Sorry - could not resist that!