A BRITISH shopper was horrified when newborn mice burst out of a bag of chips she was about to pick up at a Tesco supermarket.

Liz Wray captured images on her phone on Friday of the vermin problem at the new store in Birmingham, central England, after half a dozen pink mice emerged from a McCoy’s variety pack of chips.

Health officials confronted the store manager but Ms Wray said she was shocked Tesco bosses decided not to shut the store down, The Birmingham Mail reported.

“All the staff did was put a cardboard box over the mice and closed aisle six,” she said.



“I was with a work colleague who reached out towards the crisps [chips] and started screaming. Suddenly these tiny pink things appeared from the multipacks and were lying in front of us.”

“They were repulsive and made me feel revolting. There were half a dozen of them crawling out of different holes in the crisps and we couldn’t believe our eyes,” she added.

Ms Wray said the store manager told her that staff could not do much about the mice problem because the store was near a canal and railway track and the creatures tended to come through the floor.

A Tesco spokesman said: “This was clearly an upsetting discovery for our customer, for which we are very sorry. Pest control experts were in the store to deal with the problem and we are confident this was an isolated incident."

"The cleanliness of our stores is a priority for all our staff and there is a clear protocol on how they should deal with this kind of issue,” he added.

Read more about baby mice burst out of supermarket chips at the Birmingham Mail.