Cavendish Farms again finds needles in potatoes - not from Linkletter Farms this time.

Late December, Potato Processor Cavendish Farms detected again sewing needles stuck in potatoes processed at its New Annan plant on Prince Edward Island. As a result, 100,000 pounds of processed French fries and raw potatoes were destroyed. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency was notified and officials came to the plant. No recall was required.

This follows incidents of potato tampering last October, discovered at the same plant.

The potatoes with needles in them were found by metal detectors, as they were this week, before they left the plant. Last fall, six needles were also discovered by consumers in potatoes that had been sold in stores in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick. All of those potatoes were found to have come from Linkletter Farms in Summerside – and Linkletter ordered a voluntary recall of its products.

The most recent tampered potatoes did not come from Linkletter Farms, according to a joint statement by Cavendish Farms and the RCMP. Because of the investigation, authorities will not say how many needles were found – but they have narrowed down where the potatoes came from in the most recent incident.

So far, no one has come forward to claim the $100,000 reward for solving the mystery of who is sticking sewing needles into Prince Edward Island’s potatoes.