Popular Food Item Sold At Aldi Recalled Over Rat Hair Concerns

This is sure to make you lose you apetite.

Spinach sold at Aldi has been recalled due to contamination concerns.

Spinach produced by Dr. Praeger’s Sensible Foods Inc. and sold at Aldi has been recalled due to concerns that rat hair may be present in the product.

The Daily Mail reported more in-depth on the recall and what locations may be impacted:

Nearly 8,000 units of a popular child-friendly spinach snack are being recalled over fears they may be contaminated with rodent hair.

Dr. Praeger’s Sensible Foods Inc. issued the warning for 7,894 units of its 12-ounce Simply Nature Spinach Bites.

The products are sold frozen and the spinach-bites are plastic-wrapped and shaped like stars or dinosaurs.

They were sold at Aldi and the recall applied to those sold in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

It was first announced in mid-January, but on Monday, the FDA updated the recall to a Class II, indicating a ‘situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.’

No illnesses or hospitalizations have been reported to date.

Here’s what the product looks like:

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This isn’t the first time spinach sold at Aldi has faced concerns about rat contamination.

Check out what AU News reported:

Ben Savva plans his meals meticulously.

The professional boxer from Sydney’s eastern suburbs follows a strict regimen that involves eating the same carefully planned out meals each day.

Each morning he wakes up at 5.30am to prepare his breakfast — a smoothie of oats, protein powder, blueberries and spinach — before a day of training in the boxing ring.

But one morning in October last year, the 31-year-old made a “traumatising” discovery about his healthy brekkie.

Inside his bag of fresh spinach leaves that he’d purchased a few days earlier in Aldi, was the severed body part of a skinned rat.

Mr Savva was disgusted by the stomach-churning find, especially as there was only part of the decomposing rodent left — and the athete had already consumed half of the bag of leaves in his morning smoothie the day before.

Ben Savva is a professional boxer, based in Sydney.
Ben Savva is a professional boxer, based in Sydney.
“I looked at the packet and saw a tail, back legs and the entrails of a severed rat in the leaves,” he told news.com.au.

His mind instantly turned to the host of deadly diseases that rats are known to carry, causing him to become “seriously distressed”.

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“I started thinking about where the other half of the rat was, because I had been using spinach from the packet for several days,” he said. “I began gagging and couldn’t stop for several minutes.”