A popular supermarket has pulled strawberries from its shelves after a customer found a needle in the fruit.<br /><br />Anne Lentakis had purchased the punnet of Berry Indulgence from a Foodland in Stirling, Adelaide Hills, on Thursday. <br /><br />Ms Lentakis told ABC Radio she and her 11-year-old son had been cutting the fruit for an afternoon snack when they came across the contaminated strawberry.<br />'He cut one strawberry and found a pin deep inside the strawberry,' she said.<br /><br />'He said to me, 'Mum, I think there's a pin in my strawberry'.'<br /><br />The distraught mother said her eight-year-old son later found another needle planted in a different strawberry.<br />Ms Lentakis has since notified the fruit and vegetable store of the find and it has pulled the Berry Indulgence brand from its shelves. <br /><br />'I think there have been things put in place since this happened before with metal scanning, so that was a bit confusing to wonder how and why this could happen but [he was] very appreciative that I had called him,' she said.<br />'He had jumped on the phone and activated their procedures.'<br /><br />South Australia police are reportedly investigating the incident.<br /><br />The harrowing find comes after several needles and thumbtacks were found in groceries at South Australian supermarkets in June and July.<br /><br />A metal needle was found in a punnet of strawberries and avocado and a thumbtack discovered in a loaf of bread after three different customers purchased the groceries from a Woolworths at Golden Grove, in north-Adelaide.<br /><br />Woolworths provided police with CCTV footage and also launched their own investigation.<br />We've also commenced our own investigation with the assistance of our suppliers, in line with our established food safety procedures,' a supermarket spokesperson said at the time.<br />
