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For Jordan Daniels, it was a bite into a hamburger he will never forget — and a nightmarish ordeal he wishes on no one else.

That’s why he and many other victims are spreading the word and sounding the alarm: Throw away your wire barbecue brushes immediately.

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“These things are hazardous — why risk it?” says the 28-year-old Langley man, who swallowed a metal bristle that detached from a barbecue brush last summer.

Now, with the Victoria Day long weekend heralding the start of the B.C. barbecue season, Daniels hopes the government steps in to protect the public.

“It’s hard to understand why these things are still for sale,” he said. “I think they should be banned.”

Daniels’s trip through hamburger hell started last summer when he attended a party at a pal’s house and bit into a fresh-off-the-grill burger.

“I immediately felt a sharp pain in my throat,” he said. “It was excruciating. I went to the bathroom and tried to make myself throw up. But blood spurted out instead.