Strange Hair Found in Purefoods Corned Beef (Photos)
A man who lives in California, USA allegedly found a strange hair in a Purefoods corned beef that was originally bought from their homeland, Philippines. A photo of an opened canned beef was posted on Facebook along with the hairy content.
The viral post of Alvin Shai Robielos has a long description containing his sentiments regarding the hair he found on the corned meat. In his post, he mentioned that he tried to seek help from the Purefoods customer service, however, he was simply ignored by the company.
Alvin initially urges the netizens to share his post. He encourages pinoy internet users to scatter the evidence in social media to gain attention from Purefoods-Hormel Company, Inc., a producer and marketer of processed meats in the Philippines which was acquired by San Miguel.
PLEASE HELP ME SHARE
I ALWAYS LOVED PUREFOODS products the same way I loved the purefoods PBA team since the time of Alvin Patrimonio. This however changed with a horrible experience with a can of purefoods corned beef. Me and my wife reside in california but is currently taking a week of vacation back here in manila. I shared the story to my cousins who urged me to post this in facebook.
Then the corned beef consumer warned the netizens regarding canned goods consumption in the Philippines especially Purefoods corned beef which might contain hair and other unwanted matter that could put their health at risk.
Please be very careful when you buy and most especially eat canned goods. My parents had a short visit to the Philippines last december 2014 and brought us some canned corned beef back to the US. January 22, 2015, my wife opened a can and gave me half for my lunch. My wife unfortunately ate half of the contents before i discovered what came with it. I am not going to describe it anymore as I am attaching pictures below.
Here are the photos of partially consumed Purefoods corned beef which allegedly contained hair strands in it.
Alvin further elaborated his frustrating experience when he called the company's consumer care.
I contacted purefoods customer care service. They responded initially, called me a couple of times but told me they cannot send someone in the US or do anything to get the product examined because I am too far away. The only thing that they did for me was to ASSURE me that this is just a part of the skin of a cow (Yes- just by looking at the pictures...) I would expect for a big corporation like purefoods to protect their name and do a quality assurance to their products or to go out of their way and investigate such complaints. Makes sense? I told them that I am terribly disappointed with the way they handled this complaint. I mentioned that I will post the pictures in facebook if they won't do something about this. I followed up several times but did not get any more response. Please help me share this to your friends.
Finally, he mentioned that he wants Purefoods to immediately act on his concern. Alvin also stressed that the company should have shown "some sense of responsibility" upon learning that one of the Purefoods corned beef had hair in it.
To PUREFOODS: You know how to contact me and fix this mess. You know how the experience affected my wife so much and all we wanted from you at that point was to show some sense of responsibility. You guys failed us! How can you be 100% sure that these are not hairs from something else?
Meanwhile, as of writing, Purefoods Inc. hasn't issued a statement yet.