Halifax Regional Police are investigating after they received a call Sunday night that someone found a sewing needle in a batch of leftover potatoes.

Police say the call came in at 8:15 p.m.

The potatoes were peeled and cooked and the needle was discovered in the leftovers.

Police say the bag of potatoes was bought at the Giant Tiger on Dutch Village Road on Nov. 6. They were from P.E.I., but police did not identify the brand.

No one was injured.

Alison Scarlett, a spokeswoman for Giant Tiger, said all bagged potatoes have been pulled from the store's shelves. She said police have not told them the brand.

"Giant Tiger Stores Limited has reached out to the Halifax police department to get more information on the matter and is currently working directly with our potato vendors," she said in an email.

She said people who bought bagged potatoes at the store can return them for a refund.

Other tampering incidents

This is not the first time there have been reports of needles in P.E.I. potatoes.

The first cases of potato tampering were in the fall of 2014, with needles found in a number of potatoes. All those cases were tracked to a single farm. Major frozen potato producer Cavendish Farms also reported needles showing up on their production line.

Police investigated cases of metal objects found in potatoes sold in grocery stores in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

In 2015, the P.E.I. government announced it and the federal government would invest $2 million to assist the P.E.I. potato industry in its efforts to prevent tampered potatoes from making it to market.

At the time, the P.E.I. Potato Board said farms that had been affected by food tampering had incurred losses of more than $1 million.

The Island government has said potatoes represent the province's single largest agriculture commodity in terms of farm cash receipts at about $250 million annually over the past five years.