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A four-year-old girl has narrowly missed being seriously injured after she bit into an ice cream and found a metal spring inside the cone.

Cherish Allen, 22, from Bell Green in Coventry had bought a box of four Cadbury’s ice creams as a treat for her children, Aurora, four, and Tobias, two. The children were given their ice creams to eat as they walked home with Ms Allen and their father, Roy Smith, 31.

The Mail on Sunday reports that Aurora started to scream after biting into the ice cream.

“I used my instincts and checked her mouth,” said Ms Allen.

“I spotted something shiny and fished it out of her mouth. It was a spring.

“I checked her hand – and the ball bearing was in the very bottom of the ice cream.

“She choked slightly and started screaming so I think she tried to swallow it.

“I was horrified, it is not what you expect from a little treat is it? I mean it could have been my two-year-old son. He might not have realised it shouldn’t have been there,” she added.

Cadbury’s ice creams are manufactured by R & R Ice Cream and an investigation is now underway to try and discover how the spring and ball bearing came to be in the ice cream.

A spokesman for the company told the Mail:

“Obviously, if she has found a spring or a piece of metal, then that really is rather disturbing as things like that should not get into the product.

“We do take a huge amount of care to ensure things like this do not get into the product and all products have to be passed through a metal detector.

“We will make sure the incident is fully investigated.”

R & R Ice Cream has three sites in North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Bodmin in Cornwall. The Bodmin site has produced record breaking amounts of Cornish clotted cream ice cream this year under the Kellys ice cream brand, according to R&R Ice Cream’s website.

R & R Ice Cream also produces ice cream and frozen yoghurt products for Nestle, Skinny Cow, Britvic, Del Monte and YooMoo.

The ice cream under investigation is a Cadbury’s Caramel ice cream cone.

Aurora’s mother, Cherish Allen, said:

“A stray bit of paper, a strand of hair, you can understand – even if it is still disgusting.

“But not something potentially life threatening – you just don’t expect it, especially from such a massive, well known company like Cadbury’s.”

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