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New Zealand food bank accidentally hands out potentially lethal meth-laced candies to the homeless
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1:05Now PlayingA New Zealand food bank is scrambling to track down a stash of potentially lethal packages of meth-laced candies that were accidentally distributed to the homeless.
Auckland City Mission said Wednesday that the drug-packing pineapple-flavored sweets — which are inside innocent-looking wrapping marked with the Malaysian “Rinda” candy company logo — were given to the charity by an anonymous donor and included in food parcels.
So far authorities have recovered 16 of the faux candies, but the charity has reached out to as many as 400 people who may have unknowingly received them.
Three people have already been hospitalized after popping the candies, including a child and a staffer at the food bank who sampled one of the packages.
“We want to make it clear that Rinda Food does not use or condone the use of any illegal drugs in our products,” the company’s general manager, Steven Teh, said in a statement.
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