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A pregnant woman claims she was left horrified when she briefly chowed down some Costco pasta, only to discover a dead mouse.
The Miami woman found an “unusual texture and flavour” when she bit into her food, a lawsuit claims. Layla Medina says saw a small snout and whiskers that were from a little rodent.
Medina, who was eight months pregnant at the time, said she was scarred by the incident and also had stomach issues following the gross encounter.
She filed a lawsuit over the alleged incident, according to a report by the Miami New Times that said Medina is seeking damages over negligence, strict liability, and breach of warranty. Medina is suing both Costco and Rana Meal Solutions. The suit said the ravioli "had been manufactured, packaged, and processed" by Rana.
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The filing said Medina experienced 'horrible vomiting, diarrhoea, and abdominal cramping' (Bloomberg via Getty Images)The filing said Medina experienced “horrible vomiting, diarrhoea, and abdominal cramping."
It added: "Made sick by swallowing part of a decomposing rodent's head, Ms Medina at the same time became severely distressed about the effect that her consumption of this adulterated food was having on her unborn baby, as she was thirty-five weeks pregnant at the time.”
The complaint said Medina had bought an organic spinach-and-cheese ravioli at a Costco store in Miami on January 20 last year.
An attorney for Medina, David Singer, said Rana denied her claims. The Mirror has approached Rana and Costco for comment.
Millions of Americans do their shopping at Costco (Getty Images)Also this year, reports emerged of an outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows. But consumers seem to be undeterred. Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite years of warnings about the health risks of drinking the unpasteurized products.
That runs counter to advice from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which calls raw milk one of the “riskiest” foods people can consume.
“Raw milk can be contaminated with harmful germs that can make you very sick,” the CDC says on its website.
As of Monday, at least 42 herds in nine states are known to have cows infected with the virus known as type A H5N1, federal officials said.
They might be cute but you wouldn't want to eat one (Getty Images)The virus has been found in high levels in the raw milk of infected cows. Viral remnants have been found in samples of milk sold in grocery stores, but the FDA said those products are safe to consume because pasteurisation has been confirmed to kill the virus.
It’s not yet known whether live virus can be transmitted to people who consume milk that hasn't been heat-treated.
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But CDC officials warned last week that people who drink raw milk could theoretically become infected if the bird flu virus comes in contact with receptors in the nose, mouth and throat or by inhaling virus into the lungs. There's also concern that if more people are exposed to the virus, it could mutate to spread more easily in people.