Foreign objects in food

Although it is unpleasant to find a strange object in your food, not all foreign objects found in foods pose a significant health risk.

Manufacturers do what they can to prevent these items getting into your food, but inevitably there will be occasions when they do.

Below is a list of some commonly discovered foreign objects in food which do not cause harm to people and which we are unlikely to investigate.

• Fruit flies and green flies in fruit and vegetables
• Grubs in tinned vegetables
• Small stones and soil in fruit and vegetables
• Struvite crystals in canned fish
• Sugar crystals in sweet and chocolates
• Codworm in white fish
• Bakery char in bakery products
• Carbonised grease in bakery products
• Chocolate white 'mould'