INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
strawberry in New Zealand, police said Monday, the second incident to hit the country two months after a contamination crisis erupted in
Australia.The needle was found in a punnet sold in the small South Island town of Geraldine over the weekend, a New Zealand police spokesman
complaints.A 50-year-old woman who worked at one of the strawberry farms where the tampered produce was grown has since been arrested in
Queensland and charged with contaminating goods.The New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) said the person who found the needle
in Geraldine was not harmed."The matter has been referred to the police who are leading the criminal investigation," a ministry spokesman
However, as a precautionary measure the store has removed strawberries from shelves."(Except for the headline, this story has not been
edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
