That is horrible but if the council agreed it was a isolated incident and that all reasonable precautions were taken to stop it from happening then why were they fined? When Mars had something similar happen with a mouse's head they didnt get fined a penny because they could back up all their safety records and food hygiene practices with good record keeping and contractor visits.
I probably would have gone and got some sausage rolls or something I wouldnt have carried on making everyone sandwiches.
It was probably just a mischievous employee who couldn't resist the temptation to add the mouse to the bread.
When I was 16, I worked at a pork pie factory where there was a massive number of big hairy caterpillars on the bushes outside. We carefully ensured that one live caterpillar was added to the mixture in each of hundreds of Marks & Spencers pies ;-)
Yukkk! I bet we wouldn't eat lots of things if we knew what went into them.
I worked with a fella who used to be a butcher. He said mice sometimes went into the mince. He was going back a few years though ... hopefully the food inspector would put paid to that sort of thing nowadays.
So true tony. I once watched a butcher scraping the face off a pig to go into mince. He laughed when I said that it had put me off buying it. I guess sometimes we are a bit naive about these things.