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WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTO. Perth shopper finds mouse in his bag of spinach - find out where he bought it here

And it’s not a small one either ... - by Amy Sinclair
  • 14 Jan 2019

It’s been a week for grisly finds in Aussie shopping baskets. First up it was the mum who found maggots in her BBQ chook, then the shopper who found a bizarre string-like object in her juice. 

But today’s latest horrible find from a Perth man probably takes the cake. Sukhdeep Gill Sandhu has revealed how he found a dead mouse inside a sealed bag of spinach leaves. 

WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTO. Perth shopper finds mouse in his bag of spinach - find out where he bought it here

He’s now demanding answers from the local greengrocer he bought it from, horrified that the rodent found its way in there. 

‘I went to Spudshed Jandakot this morning around 11am and bought packed spinach,’ he wrote on the 7 News Perth Facebook page.

Mr Sandhu said he immediately spoke to the store manager at the family-owed business, leading them to destroy all the remaining spinach stock they had on their shelves.

But the horrified man is still looking for answers. 

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The Perth shopper was horrified to find this mouse in his bag of spinach.

Image: Facebook

‘I am still thinking that where is the quality check???’ he asked on social media.

‘They are selling dead mice hidden in sealed packets.’

A spokesperson for the grocer’s spinach supplier Supafresh Salads told Yahoo7 that the incident was the first time anything like it had happened in its 20-year history. 

‘We have every possible inspection and prevention within our process,’ spokesperson Troy Cukrov said. ‘Our crops are grown in open fields. We have rodent traps throughout our farms. We have insect agitators on our harvesters.

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The shopper bought the spinach from this Perth grocery store.

Image: Google Maps

‘We have rodent traps throughout our factory. We double wash all of our salads. We have inspection belts throughout the factory where the product is inspected during washing. We visually inspect during washing. We visually inspect every bag before we pack it.’

‘This is the first time we have ever had a problem like this in a bag of our product in the millions and millions of bags we have supplied throughout Western Australia.’

The spokesman apologised ‘unreservedly’ on behalf of Spudshed, urging customers to be compassionate to the challenges faced by farmers.

‘I plead with you to support us and understand,’ he added.

Amy Sinclair
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