HORRIFIED mum Faye Whistler is furious with baby food makers Milupa after she found slivers of metal in powdered food as she prepared a meal for her eight-month-old son.

Mrs Whistler, of Southwold, Bicester, was spooning out a portion of Milupa's Sunshine Banana food for baby Macaulee when she noticed something glinting in the sunlight.

She took a closer look and spotted a tiny piece of metal half-buried in the food which she was about to mix up in her toddler's dish.

She later tipped out all the powder and discovered another piece of metal.

"I can't believe they were there - if it had harmed Macaulee I would have gone absolutely mental," she said. Mrs Whistler added: "I was just about to feed him when I saw something shining in the powder.

"I saw it was a piece of metal but I thought it was a bit of the metal foil from the cover. But it was really difficult to bend.

"I am very angry. These bits of metal could have seriously injured my baby."

Milupa spokesman Sally Griffiths said the company would investigate the incident.

She said the firm had never experienced similar problems before and there was no immediately obvious reason for the metal in the food.

She said: "We are investigating the matter urgently and will report back to Mrs Whistler as soon as we can."

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