Recent we purchased some packed green vegetables in one of the largest chain group of consumer store in Switzerland. After coming home, we kept that covered / packed vegetable in the fridge. Two days later, when we opened the vegeatable, we found a big spider coming out of the vegatable..! we kep the same as it is without using and when informed to the store manager about this with the photo's and told them that we still have the vegetable and spider - they expressed thier regrets and gave us the box of chocolate and asked us to get the vegetable as soon to the store for the lab testing. Till we handover the vegetable, we got follow up calls - once after the exchange of vegetable, we never heard anything from them. And after a 2 weeks pause, we received a mail from them saying: (Translated from French to English)
"Knowing that some harmless species of spiders can be found in the area of vegetable gardening and no detection electronic or magnetic is possible at the time of packaging of this product, it may, unfortunately, a insect escapes the notice of sorters on production lines."
What I should do now? do I need to ignore this thinking its part of life? or what actions can be taken to make them understand spiders are not harmless insects or how they are going to stop this further?
You had a vegetable sent to a lab because there was a spider on it? And now, weeks later, you're still wondering what to do about this earth shattering experience of finding a bug in a place where bugs generally reside?
Your bravery and perserverence in the face of such horror is admirable, I salute you.
Next time try removing the spider and washing the vegetable.
You must be in shock. I think a strongly worded letter to the supermarket management explaining that spiders are not insects but are, in fact, arachnids
Many of the stores here carry fresh veg that is set up "market style" aka, displayed and purchased openly rather than in sealed packages.
Maybe in the future you want to go with something like those as IF they arrive from the farm complete with nature on them, said nature has a means of escaping within the store instead of being brought to someone's home while still stuck inside some packaging.
I didn't look at where you're from, I know most of the places I've lived people would have freaked out about insects / spiders on their vegetables also BUT here in Switzerland, folks tend to have a bit more natural outlook on these things. Spiders on plants helps keep down the bugs which means better quality of produce... I'm not so keen on spiders but I'd much rather find a spider in my package than discover that I've shared a portion of my lettuce with the caterpillar which I've just bitten in half.
I have to confess, when I read the title I thought some scientist had found an unkown species inside a bag of frozen peas with Madagascar as country of origin or something... First thing coming to mind was a bird...
