GARLIC bread lovers across Australia will face a shortage of the popular dish after bits of plastic were found to have contaminated a major manufacturer’s supply.

George Weston Foods, which supplies garlic bread to Pizza Hut, Domino’s, and a number of supermarkets, suspended production on the popular item after pieces of Teflon material were found in a margarine blender filter last Wednesday.

The company said the source of “foreign material contamination” at the manufacturer in Queensland had been identified.

“As a result, GWF has immediately suspended production, and the contaminated batch has been traced,” it said in a statement.

“A thorough list of all potentially affected products has been developed, and GWF has issued a recall notification to its food service customers.”

A spokesman for Domino’s Pizza said the “safety” of food products was extremely important to them and they have “extensive quality control systems in place”.

“Yesterday one of our suppliers identified they had found plastic in some batches of margarine, applied to their garlic bread, and immediately notified us,” he said.