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data-id=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/edinburgh\/\">Edinburgh<\/a> Supercentre store on May 23.<\/p>\n<p>When she arrived home she put her one-year-old son, Hudson Gray, down for a nap and went to make him a tuna and sweetcorn baguette for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>But, she said, as she took the top tin from the multi-pack stack, three maggots ‘flew’ at her. <\/p>\n<p>She then looked down to see what she believes was another 100 or so maggots in the tin. <\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\" data-ico=\"factbox_article\" data-track-module=\"factbox_article\">\n<h2 class=\"factbox-title\">\n\t\t\t\tSign up for all of the latest stories\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"factbox-content\">\n<p>Start your day informed with Metro’s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/newsletters\/news-updates\/?signup-source=news-article\">News Updates<\/a><\/strong> newsletter or get <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/newsletters\/breaking-news\/\">Breaking News<\/a> <\/strong>alerts the moment it happens.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>‘I was in shock and disbelief,’ she recalled. ‘You know when your skin starts to crawl?<\/p>\n<p>‘I hadn’t even opened the actual tin itself. The tin was open with all those\u00a0maggots\u00a0floating about.<\/p>\n<p>‘I was sick. I didn’t eat that whole day. I’m never going to touch\u00a0tuna\u00a0again. I wanted to jump in a shower with bleach because I felt disgusting.’<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"516\" src=\"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEI_254030665-0079.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23306015\" alt=\"PIC FROM KENNEDY NEWS AND MEDIA (PICTURED: THE MAGGOTS IN THE JOHN WEST TUNA CANS BETHANY BRYSON BOUGHT FROM ASDA) A mum has vowed never to eat tuna again after claiming to discover 'more than 100 maggots' crawling in her tot's John West tuna dinner bought in Asda. Bethany Bryson had nipped to Asda's Edinburgh Supercentre store on 23 May to grab a few essentials and bought a multipack of John West tinned tuna for ??3.98. The mum-of-one had intended to make her son a tuna and sweetcorn baguette for lunch and did not notice anything unusual about the cans in the store. DISCLAIMER: While Kennedy News and Media uses its best endeavours to establish the copyright and authenticity of all pictures supplied, it accepts no liability for any damage, loss or legal action caused by the use of images supplied and the publication of images is solely at your discretion. SEE KENNEDY NEWS COPY - 0161 697 4266\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>The maggot-infested John West tuna (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She described the smell as ‘unholy’, adding: ‘Tuna\u00a0doesn’t smell nice at the best of times but this didn’t even smell like off fish or anything like that. I didn’t know what it smelled like. It was potent. It was disgusting.’<\/p>\n<p>Bethany contacted the Asda store she bought the pack from, where staff said they would remove any remaining tins from their shelves and asked her to bring in her tins for testing.<\/p>\n<p>After donning two pairs of disposable gloves, she fished through her outside bins to retrieve the tins and put them in two Ziploc bags and a nappy bag.<\/p>\n<p>Bethany returned the tins to the store and was offered a \u00a320 voucher as a gesture of goodwill.<\/p>\n<p>She had also phoned Asda’s customer service team who passed the complaint onto head office. <\/p>\n<p>They later apologised for the experience and offered her a \u00a35 voucher.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"1149\" src=\"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEI_254030718-b44f.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23306018\" alt=\"PIC FROM KENNEDY NEWS AND MEDIA (PICTURED: BETHANY'S SON, HUDSON GRAY, 1, WITH BETHANY BRYSON, 28) A mum has vowed never to eat tuna again after claiming to discover 'more than 100 maggots' crawling in her tot's John West tuna dinner bought in Asda. Bethany Bryson had nipped to Asda's Edinburgh Supercentre store on 23 May to grab a few essentials and bought a multipack of John West tinned tuna for ??3.98. The mum-of-one had intended to make her son a tuna and sweetcorn baguette for lunch and did not notice anything unusual about the cans in the store. DISCLAIMER: While Kennedy News and Media uses its best endeavours to establish the copyright and authenticity of all pictures supplied, it accepts no liability for any damage, loss or legal action caused by the use of images supplied and the publication of images is solely at your discretion. SEE KENNEDY NEWS COPY - 0161 697 4266\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Bethany was going to make a tuna baguette for her one-year-old son Hudson (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But she said: ‘I was heated when I got that response and I replied back saying, “\u00a35 when I was about to feed this to my one-year-old son, that’s not acceptable.”<\/p>\n<p>‘I was like, “I do not want my little boy getting sick from that” because he obviously roams about the floor.<\/p>\n<p>‘He’s walking but he does crawl about the kitchen sometimes so the last thing I want is remnants of\u00a0maggots\u00a0being on the floor for him to get unwell.<\/p>\n<p>‘I was actually horrified because if those\u00a0maggots\u00a0hadn’t been fully developed into the size they were and I hadn’t noticed they were in the tin I could have fed that to my son and that just makes me feel sick, it’s horrible.’<\/p>\n<p>John West have also apologised and offered her a \u00a310 voucher as a gesture of goodwill.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said: ‘At John West, the safety of our consumers and the quality of our products are our highest priorities and we take this incident extremely seriously.<\/p>\n<p>‘No living animal could have survived the high-temperature sterilisation used in our production process.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"684\" src=\"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEI_254030738-3316.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23306011\" alt=\"PIC FROM KENNEDY NEWS AND MEDIA (PICTURED: THE MAGGOTS IN THE JOHN WEST TUNA CANS BETHANY BRYSON BOUGHT FROM ASDA) A mum has vowed never to eat tuna again after claiming to discover 'more than 100 maggots' crawling in her tot's John West tuna dinner bought in Asda. Bethany Bryson had nipped to Asda's Edinburgh Supercentre store on 23 May to grab a few essentials and bought a multipack of John West tinned tuna for ??3.98. The mum-of-one had intended to make her son a tuna and sweetcorn baguette for lunch and did not notice anything unusual about the cans in the store. DISCLAIMER: While Kennedy News and Media uses its best endeavours to establish the copyright and authenticity of all pictures supplied, it accepts no liability for any damage, loss or legal action caused by the use of images supplied and the publication of images is solely at your discretion. SEE KENNEDY NEWS COPY - 0161 697 4266\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Bethany described the smell of the tuna as ‘unholy’ (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>‘Based on the information currently available, it appears the can was damaged after packaging and during transit within the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>‘This damage compromised the seal and allowed environmental contamination, ultimately leading to spoilage.<\/p>\n<p>‘While this appears to be an isolated incident, John West is working closely with logistics partners to ensure that product is being handled with care and that such an issue does not occur again.’<\/p>\n<p>An Asda spokesperson said that as soon the store became aware of the issue they removed all products with the same batch code from their shelves.<\/p>\n<p>They added said: ‘This product was supplied by a branded partner who have confirmed it was damaged in transit through the supply chain.’<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said they had not received any similar complaints from other customers. <\/p>\n<p>Last year a woman said she was left ‘traumatised’ after <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/09\/13\/woman-traumatised-find-rat-loaf-bread-eating-21603651\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/09\/13\/woman-traumatised-find-rat-loaf-bread-eating-21603651\/\">finding a dismembered rat wedged in her bread.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”name”:”Metro.co.uk”,”duration”:”T23S”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/06\/02\/11\/98958969-0-image-m-33_1748858920840.jpg”,”uploadDate”:”2025-06-02T11:07:45+0100″,”description”:”Mum-of-one Bethany Bryson had nipped to Asda’s Edinburgh Supercentre store to grab a few essentials, but wasn’t expecting the extra guests.”,”contentUrl”:”https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2025\/06\/02\/4024144903893333568\/480x270_MP4_4024144903893333568.mp4″,”height”:480,”width”:270} To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/mum-finds-more-than-100-maggots-in-tin-of-tuna-she-bought-for-toddlers-lunch\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mum finds \u2018more than 100 maggots\u2019 in tin of tuna she bought for toddler\u2019s lunch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6112,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions\/6112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}