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Heard about pills found in a Gortons fish filets?? Please check this link if you use these. Snopes says ..

this is true. and recent.

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/gortons.asp

I also posted this in the food section. I haven't heard anything on the news, but please check the codes if you have any on hand.

Update:

All lot details are in the Snopes article. You need not look furthur. This was in no way an attempt to disparage Gorton's. Doesn't matter how limited it is if you are the one who gets the altered product. All products are susceptable these days. But when there is an issue, please check it out.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    According to my local newspaper there was a single incidence of this happening recently. Gorton's recalled the entire lot number associated with this affected box. You do not have anything to worry about unless you happen to have a box from the affected lot. You probably do not have anything to worry about anyway since these type of incidents are usually caused by a disgruntled employee and are very limited in scope , like a box or two tampered with. I'll try and find the affected lot code number and post it later but I wouldn't worry about this issue too much. They will have arrested whomever did this quite quickly since it had to be done at the Gortons factory.

    The affected product is Gorton's 6 Crispy Battered Fish Fillets with the UPC code 4440015770 and date code 7289G1. The product was distributed to stores in California, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Texas, and are now being removed from store shelves.

    Consumers who have bought the product may arrange for a refund by sending the empty box to Gorton's Recall Center, PO Box 6075, Englewood, NJ 07631-0075.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I suspect that eventually, charges will be filed in this case against the person who "found" the pills... Think about how unlikely it is that a pill (which after all is designed to be water-soluble so that humans can ingest it) would survive the flash freezing process, then survive the rapid defrosting that occurs when you start to fry something, and still be recognizable as a pill when the "victims" bit into it! Adding to the unlikelihood of this tale is that mother, daughter & son ALL found pills in their fillets, which were undoubtedly frozen on seperate occassions. Have you ever seen how this product is made? Any two random fillets in a bag or box together almost never come from the same spot on the production line. And once they are frozen, it would be all but impossible to force anything inside them. To have three pills in one batch, there would need to be literally thousands & thousands of tampered-with filets.

    A woman in Newport News, Virginia, contended she found a battered chicken head in her order recently, without apparently thinking through the manufacturing process, either: chickens are beheaded BEFORE their carcasses go in to be defeathered and butchered...there are no chickens heads beyond that point!

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