Del Monte will be facing serious charges if the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) find the accusations of an ABS-CBN employee who claimed that the tomato sauce that his wife used in cooking contained what appeared to be a “heart of a small mammal” suspected to be that of a rat true.

Mario Bautista of Bacoor, Cavite, and an employee of the ABS-CBN Bayan Foundation said that his entire family was traumatized after discovering that the tomato sauce they used to cook spaghetti last year was contaminated with rat parts.

According to Bautista, his wife and children were hospitalized after suffering from severe headache, dizziness and vomiting.

Bautista said that the “heart of a small mammal” was discovered inside the pouch of a Del Monte tomato sauce. The Del Monte tomato sauce was bought at Puregold grocery, Imus, Cavite branch.

“Kahit takot ay naglakas ako ng loob na tingnan ang lalagyan ng sauce at nakita ko ang isang bagay na nasa loob ng pack. Ang bagay na ito ay mapusyaw na puti na tila goma at solido,” Bautista said in an interview by BusinessMirror.

Bautista first let the object found in the tomato sauce pack examined by the UP Los Baños laboratory. According to UP Los Baños tests “three tissue samples processed and examined showed features characteristic of a heart of a “small mammal.”

According to reports, the test done by UP Los Baños indicate presence or increase of protein level in tomato sauce such as that sold by Del Monte, which advertises that its tomato sauce has no protein or has zero protein level.

With reports from BusinessMirror.

This Philippine News entitled ‘Rat Parts’ Found in Del Monte Pasta Sauce and is labeled with the following Tags: ABS-CBN, Bureau of Food and Drugs, Del Monte, Puregold, university of the philippines, uplb and was published on Feb 20, 2009 in Headline, Philippine News