Found pill in Princes Apple juice box

SevenOfNine

azzabazza wrote: »

After all they dissolve in our stomachs once we have swallowed them.

:rotfl:

Sometimes there is a level of 'daft' that is quite amusing. A solid pill travelling through your system into your stomach has a lot more to contend with (acids & enzymes) than just sloshing about in a carton of juice!

Perhaps whether or not it would dissolve in the orange may depend on what type of coating the pill has? IF it's a pill.

transient

Dazedandconfused wrote: »

I would phone out of hours doctor and ask for advice to be honest you can never be too careful goodness knows what it was

People like you that place a burden on the NHS and local resources

Fosterdog

SevenOfNine wrote: »

:rotfl:

Sometimes there is a level of 'daft' that is quite amusing. A solid pill travelling through your system into your stomach has a lot more to contend with (acids & enzymes) than just sloshing about in a carton of juice!

Perhaps whether or not it would dissolve in the orange may depend on what type of coating the pill has? IF it's a pill.

Umm apples contain malic and citric acid so although mild apple juice is an acidic drink. Do you really think that a pill in the stomach gets "sloshed" around more than one being mixed in with apple juice, running through a production line of the bottling factory, getting sloshed around inside the carton while travelling however far from factory, to warehouse, to shop shelf, to consumers home?

The "pill" would have been in there for a week minimum from production to consumption, if it's longer life stuff rather than fresh it could be sat in the liquid for weeks or months. I can't see any pill, no matter what the coating surviving that.

redglass_2

Don't send all the pill to Princes. Send half and keep half as evidence. It IS a serious matter: the thing could have dissolved completely and reacted with any other meds you were taking. They should pay compensation....and of course check their processes.

WTFH

redglass wrote: »

They should pay compensation.

Why?
We don't know for certain that the "pill" was put in there by Princes, all we know is that is is soft but has a perfect circle indent around it.

transient

redglass wrote: »

Don't send all the pill to Princes. Send half and keep half as evidence. It IS a serious matter: the thing could have dissolved completely and reacted with any other meds you were taking. They should pay compensation....and of course check their processes.

Joker:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

ganache

Dazedandconfused wrote: »

I would phone out of hours doctor and ask for advice to be honest you can never be too careful goodness knows what it was

I didn't think there was anything they could tell me or do for me unless I started feel sick in some way so I left it.

pulliptears wrote: »

Surely a pill in liquid would completely dissolve, especially over 5 hours!

I think you misunderstood the 5 hour reference, it's completely irrelevant as to whether or not it would have dissolved. At the time of posting it was about 5 hours since I drunk from the box. I found the pill when I went to pour another glass in the evening and posted a little while after that.

stephen77 wrote: »

Have you a photo of the pill / pip?

this will stop put a end to of is it a pill or pip debate.

Not yet, I won't be able to take one until sometime this evening. Tbh it shouldn't even be a debate based on my description...an apple pip is distinctively,irregularly shaped, dark and relatively hard. It's not a pip...

Having said that it has changed since yesterday, when I took it out of the glass it was like I said beige and when I pressed it gently although it held together it felt kind of mushy. I left it out on top of the box and put it away, now today it's harder, slightly smaller and a much darker amber-brown colour.

Arlandria606

I would try to work out what it is.

You could use an online pill identification tool (drugs.com has one) to see if you can match it to something in their database.

Failing that, take it to your local pharmacy - they should be able to tell you if it looks like something they have access to.

I would also get in touch with both Princes and the retailer you bought it from to let them know that something unexpected was found in the juice. Whatever it is, it shouldn't be in there, so they need to be aware.

So long as you feel OK and it doesn't turn out to be something nasty, I wouldn't worry about going to a doctor. If it is a pill, most of it is intact, so whatever you've ingested is a tiny dose and unlikely to suddenly cause you a huge problem (that would probably have happened already). That said, if you do go to a pharmacist and they say otherwise, I'd follow their advice.

If you could post a photo, that would be great, maybe someone on here will recognise it - and I'm sure many of us are just curious!

SevenOfNine

Ganache - you have found a foreign body in a carton of juice, pip, pill, whatever, who knows, but it doesn't seem likely it's supposed to be there.

Contact your local Councils Environmental Health department (with ours we can fill in a form on-line or telephone). They deal with food safety issues and at the moment that is what this is, until such time as the foreign body is identified.

Take a couple of photo's as soon as you can before it dries up too much as it may help them with identification. They'll tell you what to do with the 'remains'.

spike241

pulliptears wrote: »

Surely a pill in liquid would completely dissolve, especially over 5 hours!

Depends entirely on the liquid. Just because something is soluble in one liquid, it doesn't mean it will be soluble in any.