Human finger in ice cream

A day after a human finger was allegedly detected in one of its Yummo brand ice-cream cones delivered to a customer, Walko Food Co Ltd. said today that it has stopped outsourcing its manufacturing to a third-party and is withdrawing stocks of the ice-cream from all stores.

In a guarded statement, a company spokesperson said, “We are taking this incident very seriously. We have stopped manufacturing (the ice-cream) at this third-party facility. We have isolated the said product at the facility, our warehouses and are in the process of doing the same at the market level.”

The company admitted to the customer complaint on June 12 – raised by one Dr Brendan Serrao of Malad west – that a “foreign object was found in one of our products ordered via a delivery partner.”

The spokesperson said that product quality and safety were its top priority and they were addressing the situation even as an official police complaint was lodged by the customer.

“We are a law-abiding company and shall fully cooperate and support the authorities to investigate the matter thoroughly,” said the spokesperson.

Official sources said that the state Food & Drugs Authority (FDA) has taken note of the matter and is likely to intervene, though officials declined to speak on record.

In a chilling incident, a Mumbai doctor who ordered ice-cream online, was stunned to find what he alleged was a severed piece of a human finger in it, sending officials into a tizzy.

(This story was taken from a syndicated feed, and edited only for style by Gujarat Samachar Digital staff)

Also read:

Mumbai man orders ice cream online, gets a cone with human finger in it