A mum says she won't shop at Asda again after finding fish eggs in fish fingers she bought at her local store. Caitlyn Lawton, 19, made the discovery while cooking the food for her son Austin, two.
She'd bought the fish fingers from the supermarket's Just Essentials Range. Asda has explained that "there is always a small risk of roe making its way into the final product" and has apologised, offering a refund and a goodwill gesture.
Caitlyn, who noticed the problem just before she served up the meal to her boy, said: "It was disgusting. I had cooked the fish fingers and my partner got the tray out, cut them up and put them on the window sill to cool down.
"I got the tray out to give them to him and noticed all these little balls and thought it wasn't right. I cut them up again and realised it was lots of fish eggs."
Caitlyn said it was lucky she noticed the eggs before her little boy took a bite, reports Chronicle Live.
She said: "I have really bad health anxiety and this would have pushed me over the edge. If he had eaten them I would probably have taken him to hospital."
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Caitlyn said it had put her off shopping at the supermarket.
She said: "I'm never going to shop there again. I do my shopping on a Friday and went to a different shop."
Caitlyn, from Cramlington, Northumberland, said she's contacted Asda to let them know about the grizzly find. It comes after the Mirror reported a mum from Middlesbrough found fish eggs in fish fingers she was going to feed her two-year-old.
An Asda spokesperson said: "Unfortunately the nature of using fish means that there is always a small risk of roe making its way into the final product. We have processes in place throughout the supply chain from catch to processing, including avoiding times of the year when this is more likely occur. We’ve contacted Ms Lawton and offered her a full refund as well as a gesture of goodwill, and we apologise again for any inconvenience this may have caused her."
