Needles have been found in strawberries across New Zealand.
On Sunday, Woolworths-owned supermarket chain Countdown announced it was removing Choice brand strawberries, imported from Western Australia, from shelves across New Zealand after an Auckland customer reported discovering needles.
New Zealand Minister for Primary Industries Damien O'Connor was not yet clear whether the needles had been inserted in Australia or after export.
Mr O’Connor says: "I hopes that it would not be a New Zealander doing a copycat ... these will be the things that will be discovered.”