Mum fearing for family's health after 'finding faeces in Aldi pint of milk'

A mum said she fears for her family's health after claiming she found faeces in an Aldi pint of milk.

Anita Jacobs, from Otford, was horrified after drinking milk from the bottle, before realising it appeared to be contaminated.

After complaining to Aldi – the 45-year-old says she has been told instead of carrying out tests on the substance, the budget chain threw the sample in the bin.

A store spokesman said the company wanted to assure Mrs Jacobs the milk was processed alongside the bottles in a sealed environment and it was poured through a one millimetre mesh to prevent contamination, reports Kent Live.

But intellectual property consultant Mrs Jacobs, of Ashen Grove, says she has been left furious and that instead of taking her complaint seriously, the supermarket had “fobbed her off with a bunch of flowers”.

Mum Anita Jacobs from Otford claims to have found faeces like substance in her Aldi milk the brown substance before it was thrown away (BPM MEDIA)

“My daughter called me from the kitchen to say something had come out of the milk bottle.

"It was on the floor and I was beside myself. I have never seen anything like it in my entire life,” she said.

Mrs Jacobs said she bought the six-pint Cowbelle brand milk from Sevenoaks’ Aldi store in Otford on Thursday and used it in her and her husband Morne’s coffee as well as on her four-year-old twins’ cereal before realising there was a problem.

“They told me it was probably burnt cream, but it looked nothing like that. They just gave me a bunch of flowers and my money back, but I want to know what was in the milk. I just feel I am being fobbed off with the cream.

Anita pours fresh milk on daughters Amonie's cereal (BPM MEDIA)

“Fortunately we have not been sick but I don’t know how long it stays in the body and I’m concerned – especially for my twins.”

An Aldi spokesman added the company’s quality control team were “very surprised” as it was difficult to see how it happened.

He said: “Practices are put into place to make it impossible for anything to get into the bottle. The bottles are also manufactured in the same place.”

An Aldi spokesperson said: “Our supplier has robust processes in place with all milk passing through a 1mm filter to prevent an object of this size entering into the product.”