Beetle cereal 'too organic' for Hong Kong shopper
An upmarket Hong Kong grocery store is being prosecuted after a customer allegedly discovered 575 beetles in a jar of cereal, officials and media reports said today.
The customer, lawyer Philip Dykes, said the breakfast cereal was “too organic for my liking”, according to the South China Morning Post.
The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has charged the grocer store with providing “food not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser”, said Emily Mak, a department spokeswoman.
The lawyer allegedly found the beetles and 17 larvae in the plastic jar, which he bought in 2003, it was reported.
