(ANSA) - Rome, October 4 - The health ministry on Wednesday
pulled form supermarket shelves Bonduelle frozen spinach
believed to contain the hallucinogenic plant mandragora. The lot
being withrawn across Italy is 15986504-7222 45M63, with a shelf
life until 8/2019. It is not yet known how the mandragora may
have got into the spinach. Bonduelle said the presence of
mandragora, or mandrake, in the spinach had "not been proven".
The health ministry's move came after a family came down with
mandragora poisoning after eating some of the lot in Milan. The
three family members were discharged from hospital Wednesday
after making a full recovery.
'Mandragora-tainted' spinach withdrawn (4)
Bonduelle frozen lot pulled across Italy