Shock Find in Frozen Pizza Could Have Caused Major Damage

A shocked Coles customer has claimed he found a screw in a frozen pizza and has posted images to social media.

The man from Perth claims he and his partner, who bought the pizza, were eating it until she bit into something hard and spat the screw out onto the table.

The photos show the small screw sitting on a wooden table and the half eaten pizza with a hole where the man says the screw was embedded.

piza pizza screw

Originally thinking it was an olive pip they didn’t think much of it until looking at the screw.

Friends have commented saying they need to sue the company as it could have done some major damage if swallowed or chomped on.

“She could of choked on that or even worse it could of been a child. I would be wanting answers to why is a screw in the kitchen to end up in the food.”

Another commented that dental work would not have come cheap if she had damaged a tooth.

While it was possibly a screw off manufacturing equipment. When contacted Coles advised, ‘Coles takes the quality of all our products seriously and has contacted the customer to follow up their complaint,’ a Coles spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia.

‘As always, we encourage customers to return any item they’re not 100% happy with to their nearest store for a full refund or replacement,’ she said.

Daily Mail Australia said it has contacted the pizza manufacturer for comment.

Concerning after a string of recent incidents where metal, including sewing needles, has been found in fruit.

More than 100 reports of tampered fruit have been investigated by police across Australia, many of which are thought to be fake or copycat cases.

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20 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 28 Nov 2022
    1:34 pm
Anyone else worried about the person eating with their hands and having such dirty fingernails?

- - mom101628 said
  - 13 Jan 2019
    9:29 pm
I would have contacted the manufacturer very quickly and kept it all for them to see or be sent to them. Something is wrong in their factory.

- - mom185490 said
  - 28 Nov 2018
    2:18 pm
I think contacting the manufacturer in the 1st instance would have been the best course of action.

- - mom112217 said
  - 24 Nov 2018
    9:20 am
She could have also broken a tooth,very scary !

- - mom7108 said
  - 23 Nov 2018
    12:40 pm
This sort of thing happened when I was a kid in some pre-packed chicken breast we purchased Things are manufactured and put into packets by machines, things happen. I think we just hear about it more due to social media.

- - mom81879 said
  - 07 Nov 2018
    7:12 pm
With all the needles in fruit lately, was this an accident or could the screw have been planted too?

- - mom93821 said
  - 20 Oct 2018
    7:17 am
In this instance surely contact would need to be made with the producer of the pizza?

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 16 Oct 2018
    1:52 pm
It’s not Coles’ fault, the manufacturer should be contacted about compensation.
- mom93821 replied
  
  22 Oct 2018 , 5:48 am
  I would expect that the manufacturer would indeed be contacted to investigate the facts of this situation.
- - BellaB said
  - 12 Oct 2018
    11:22 am
Going straight to suing is unreasonable, though definitely worth a strong complaint…

- - Ellen said
  - 12 Oct 2018
    8:12 am
Oh my goodness, that’s bad ! Thank God she didn’t swallow it, it could have caused major damage !

- - Stef said
  - 12 Oct 2018
    7:49 am
We purchase this pizza all the time..it’s actually a really nice pizza..but I’m definitely put off. Glad that the screw wasn’t swallowed!

- - mom265671 said
  - 12 Oct 2018
    12:08 am
Oh goodness, now screws. Very lucky find.

- - tessie said
  - 11 Oct 2018
    10:13 pm
So lucky she never swallowed it. Could have caused a lot of internal damage. Hopefully they took it back to the store. I’m glad the company is taking it seriously.

- - Blossom said
  - 11 Oct 2018
    10:07 pm
Was the Pizza and foreign object – part of a screw – taken back to Coles Supermarket?
Has a product recall been issued – by the Manufacturer ??- it is not an exclusive Coles Brand and by Coles at all??

- - mom19782016 said
  - 11 Oct 2018
    9:42 pm
You have to wonder if this is a copy cat stunt though?
- Amanda Holland replied
  
  12 Oct 2018 , 10:45 am
  I’m wondering that to, how many people are actually making false claims. They may very well have found it in there but with everything that’s been happening with the strawberries, you have to wonder
- - country chick said
  - 11 Oct 2018
    9:40 pm
Lucky they chewed properly!

- - Mum2archer said
  - 11 Oct 2018
    12:39 pm
I was eating a muslie bar about 4 years ago and crunched Down on something. Upon spitting it out it was a small stone and part of my tooth. I had to have emergency dental procedure to fix it, but just contacted the company and they paid for the lot for me. It wasn’t a pleasant experience!
- mom90758 replied
  
  11 Oct 2018 , 5:59 pm
  Oh my. Not nice at all. Very good response from the company.