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On Wednesday we told you the story about the Honey Bunches of Weevils at Tai Kong store in Cayo. The enraged customer who bought the contaminated box of cereal was charged with harm after she stoned the Chinese grocer with a calculator - that was her reacting to the Chinese grocer snatching her phone away to prevent her from recording their exchange about the cereal. It was a messy situation but now that that is in the past, going forward, how should a customer handle a situation such as this one where they purchase a tainted grocery item? We asked principal public health inspector John Bodden via phone.

Voice of John Bodden - Principal Public Health Inspector 
"That's under the mandate of the public health and what we do, as per usual whenever there is a situation as such, we invite people to come to the office and bring in products - so we can see exactly what the situation was that we need to address. And of course, normally that facility we will visit and we will do an inspection of the facility and of course what needs to be condemned and the owner would definitely would be cited for any infractions that were involved."

Courtney Weatherburne
"What is really the procedure that customers should follow when they find contaminated grocery items?"

Voice of John Bodden
"The procedure is once they found it, they make a report to the public health officer in the district and that officer would take the necessary information and request them to present the item if it is available. Notwithstanding that, if the product is not available we will still visit the store and we would conduct a thorough inspection of the facility. If there is a warehouse associated with that business, we also visit that warehouse to ensure that we can actually ascertain if all the products are within the same context - if they are all expired or have issues other foreign objects. What we would do then is to actually do destruction if we find any other product in the facility that the similar complaint."

So as you heard, you should report such incidents to the local public health inspector in your area. Bodden advises that you take picture or keep the contaminated product as proof.

27 year old Khandie Young was charged for harm.  Police dropped the charge of damage to property.