Victorian police have confirmed they are investigating two separate reports of strawberries being found with needles inside them in Melbourne's northern suburbs.Another instance was reported to police a fortnight earlierOne woman was celebrating her 30th birthday on Sunday night with a strawberry-topped cake when she bit into one of the berries to find a needle or pin lodged in the fruit.
The woman's mother, Lorelle Wilson, told the ABC although she avoided swallowing the metal, she was taken to hospital for x-rays because she"had a sharp pain" that did not go away.Ms Wilson said the x-rays found nothing else inside her daughter, who did not want to be named, but hospital staff were concerned she may have swallowed another foreign object.
She said the strawberries were bought at a Coles supermarket in Eltham, in Melbourne's outer-north, before being covered in chocolate by a friend and placed on the cake."Banyule Criminal Investigation Unit detectives are currently investigating two reports of food contamination in the Eltham and Fairfield areas," a spokesman said.
Police said the first report was of a needle found in a strawberry bought from a store in Fairfield, in Melbourne's inner north, on August 25 and reported to police on September 10.Last year, a nationwide needle scare — when there were more than 100 reports of contaminated strawberries — led to
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