The Sherman Police Department and The Hershey's Company are investigating a report from a resident who found a thin piece of metal embedded in a piece of candy collected during door-to-door trick-or-treating in the village on Wednesday night.

Sherman Mayor Trevor Clatfelter said police were called to a home on Wednesday night after a parent opened a single-serving package of a "Reese’s Stuffed with Pieces" and found the metal stuck in the chocolate. The resident said the candy's wrapper did not appear to be tampered with before it was torn open. No one was hurt.

Clatfelter said the investigation is ongoing and that investigators are not at this time ruling out any possibilities.

The mayor said Hershey's, which manufactures the candy in question, is shipping Sherman officials a package they can use to mail the candy, wrapper and metal back to the company.

A spokesman for Hershey, Pennsylvania-based Hershey's told The State Journal-Register Thursday the company plans to analyze the candy and metal to determine where the metal came from.

"At The Hershey Company, we implement the highest food safety and quality standards in the industry to ensure our products are safe to eat when they leave our manufacturing facilities," said spokesman Jeff Beckman. "This includes the use of metal detectors to screen for potential metal objects in any products. We have reached out to the Sherman Police Department to offer to assist with an analysis of the product to determine if this was product tampering."

Hershey's and Sherman police reminded parents to inspect all Halloween candy before it is eaten.