Telford woman chips tooth on screw in bacon butty

Hilda Berry, of Abbey Fields in Randlay, suffered a chipped tooth when she came across the screw in her bread after making herself a bacon sandwich on Monday morning. She said she bought the loaf of Warburtons Toastie bread from Asda in Telford town centre.

Mrs Berry said: "I just bit into it and felt something. When I checked it was a really rusty screw.

"I'm livid. I have my grandson visit all the time and I just thought what would've happened if he had bitten into it. It chipped my tooth."

Warburtons sent a representative round to Mrs Berry's house to pick up the screw for examination.

Mrs Berry, 55, said: "I rang up and told them what happened, and they asked me to put it in the post.

"I thought it might get lost or stolen. I was absolutely livid so they said they would get someone to come round and pick it up.

"They said they were going to take it away to investigate how it got into the loaf."

She said she was worried there may be more screws in other loaves of bread.

"It looks like it has got old and rusty and fell out of a machine and I am worried about what might happen if there are more that have fell from the machine," she said.

A spokeswoman for Warburtons said: "We are aware of the complaint made by Mrs Berry.

"We have sent our investigation team to collect the loaf so we can undertake rigorous tests to ascertain the origin of the foreign body.

"The quality of our products is of the utmost importance to our family business and we pride ourselves on our excellent food safety standards and processes."

By Jon Pritchard