A customer was left to consider deeply his slice of fortune after ordering a pizza meal and finding an ingredient he could hardly have imagined yes it a blade without anyone suffering an injury.

In fact, the incident saw an official at Dubai Municipality agitated residents to immediately notify authorities should they come across any contamination in their food.

Clyde Fernandes, who was a resident of Karama said that his friend and he called the food outlet’s delivery number for a chicken pizza at about 2.20am and the pieces he had were fine, but it was only when my friend ate a slice the next day that he found the blade. His friend at first thought it might have been a bone, and was shocked to see the blade because it could have cut him to death. Spontaneously he complained to the pizza outlet but all they offered was a complimentary pizza, and that is not the kind of apology that they were expecting.

He added that he already lodged a complaint with Dubai Municipality and inspectors have already collected the blade as part of their investigation, stressing that he hopes that some action will be taken to ensure that nobody else faces such an life threatening experience.

Moreover, it seems that a municipal official explained that the civic body acts according to a Corrective Action Plan on receiving complaints of food contamination, saying the system will determine what course of action needs to be taken.

Bobby Krishna, Senior Food Studies and Surveys Officer, Food Control Department at Dubai Municipality said in this case, it is difficult to determine whether the blade was in the flour or in the ingredients, so it is vital for them to launch an investigation and find out how the pizza was contaminated while he also added that it generally depends on the gravity of the situation, and they have to take into consideration whether it was a first-time offence or if the outlet had multiple violations and other complaints have been reported in the past.

According to Bobby, all lodged complaints have to be closed within 24 hours, so they will contact the company responsible and let them know within a day what action needs to be taken in order to prevent such life threatening incident from happening again.

Note: Residents can call the hotline 800 900 to notify the municipality of any violations by food outlets...(***only inside Dubai)

That was really God's grace that the man survived from an instant life blunder even after having his initial bite!

(AW:Samrat Biswas)