A CARE home worker has said she found a plaster inside a meal delivered by a York takeaway.

Jodie Wilkinson, who works at Rosedale Care Home, sat down with her partner, sister and her sister’s partner, to eat a doner wrap from Acomb Kebab House.

Ms Wilkinson said she had used the takeaway a number of times before without issue.

Acomb Kebab House has denied she found a plaster in her food and said it was actually a piece of fat.

Ms Wilkinson said: “I felt something chewy in my mouth, pulled it out and it was a plaster. I was shocked, it was horrendous.

"I was sick. Everyone stopped eating.

"My sister rang the takeaway and told them what happened, as I had to go to work, and said we wanted our money back.

“They came to the front door and said can we have all the leftover food and my sister poured it all from our plates and gave it back. They gave us our money back, and that was that.”

Ms Wilkinson said she had to work a 12-hour shift after the incident, and had contacted local Environmental Health services, who asked for the food and plaster, but she no longer had them.

She said: “I also think it’s wrong they aren’t using the blue plasters, because you use them with food, and if it was blue, I might have seen it.

“I don’t know what to say. Environmental health said they would get back in touch with me after I sent them the photo. I’m waiting to hear more from them and left a voice mail explaining we hadn’t got the food any more.”

Servel Aktas, from the takeaway, said the shop used blue plasters, but Ms Wilkinson was mistaken about what she had found.

He said: “There was no plaster [in the kebab], it was a piece of fat.

“We gave her a refund and took the food away.

"It was a piece of fat, not a plaster.

“We explained at the time and asked the driver to explain to her too.”