Aldi removes 38,000 bags of frozen vegetables of it shelves after customer finds rat inside one (Picture: Getty Images)

Aldi has removed 38,000 bags of frozen vegetables of its shelves after a customer found half a rat inside one.

The supermarket giant issued a recall for the bags after a grandma found bits of rodent in the product while feeding her two-year-old granddaughter lunch.

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Pat Bateman, 60, said finding the pieces of rodent left her feeling ‘physically sick’.

She told The Sun: ‘We had eaten almost all of the bag before we saw it – and what’s even worse – I fed it to my youngest granddaughter.


‘It’s a wonder none of us ended up physically ill.’

The supermarket giant has suspended all orders of the frozen vegetables (Picture: Aldi)

She immediately returned back to her branch of Aldi near Liskeard, Cornwall, where the manager apologised and offered her £30 off her next shop.

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Yet Mrs Bateman didn’t feel the company took her complaint seriously enough so she went to Aldi’s head office.



She has since been offered £500 in compensation but she still doesn’t think this is ‘enough’.

According to an internal Aldi report seen by the paper, three complaints were made about ‘pieces of small rodent’ being found in the same product.

The mixed veg bag was removed from sale on January 5 as a result.

Aldi said in a statement: ‘Following Mrs Bateman’s complaint, we removed this product from sale to prevent any further issues.

‘We have suspended all orders from this production site whilst we investigate this matter.’

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