Police are investigating after a 10-year-old boy found a sewing needle as he took a bite of out of an Asda banana, his "shocked" mum claims.
Joanne Aiken said that she later found more needles after inspecting the rest of the bananas from the same bunch.
The concerned mum-of-three posted on Facebook: “Just to make everyone aware when buying bananas from Asda Grangemouth, please check them.”
“These were found in each of ours... one last night and today my wee boy bit into one and found another.
“Please be careful if you or your wee ones eat bananas.”
The supermarket giant has apologised and said it was launching its own investigation, reports Edinburgh Live.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Officers have been made aware a banana, bought from a store in Grangemouth, has been found with a sewing needle in it.
"No further incidents have been reported. No one has been injured and enquiries are ongoing."
Officers are working alongside the supermarket to investigate the incident.
After they were made aware of the grim discovery, staff at the store recalled the bananas on the shop floor to check for more foreign objects but say they found nothing.
An Asda spokesperson said: "We take matters of food safety extremely seriously and are at a loss to understand how this could have happened, but we would like to assure all customers that as soon as we were made aware of the allegation we launched a full investigation.
"Whilst we haven’t received any other complaints of this nature and there are no signs of any defects to the bananas in our Grangemouth store, we would like to apologise for any concern caused and thank Ms Aiken for bringing the product back so we can investigate what has happened here.”
