In a recent Facebook post, mummy Jamie Tang Chan alerts fellow parents to be very careful of what may await your little kids in their favourite pack of raisins. She was unpleasantly greeted by worms in her son’s box of raisins! This popular brand is a hot favourite with both children and adults, and she reaches out to tell mums and dads to always be extremely thorough in checking for anything unusual before handing over food to your kids to eat.
On 9 May, Jamie’s son was reaching into his raisins box, munching away at the snack, when she spotted black specks at the bottom of the box. On closer inspection, Jamie was horrified to find that the specks were worms! It’s a good thing she was alert enough to realise something was not right.
Upon reaching home, she opened all the boxes of raisins she had in her pantry from the same brand, and found worms in them all! There was still a year to reach their expiration date, so this was shocking to her. Thankfully her son didn’t fall ill or suffer from any stomach infection from this incident.
You can see the wiggly worms that appeared from the raisin box here.
Jamie had bought the packs of raisins from the NTUC at Ang Mo Kio Hub, and immediately wrote in to them about her findings. When we spoke to her, she shared that the supermarket did a random check on their stock thereafter but hadn’t found any worms.
In her Facebook post, her friends have suggested to “only get raisins that are vacuum packed when purchased. To ensure freshness.” The ones she had gotten ‘’were packed in plastic which could easily be torn off.”
Another friend commented that “raisins and other sweet food typically are contaminated not at the point of manufacture but during storage if there are leaks in the packaging. Weather in Singapore too humid… so best to keep food like that in cool, dry place like the fridge to prevent contamination.”
Jamie told us, “I am appreciative of the fact that the supermarket followed up with my written complaint very quickly. I’ve in fact asked them to get the manufacturer to include ‘store in fridge once opened’ in the storage advice on the snack’s box. They said they will pass on the message.”
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