LITTLE Chelsea Daynes loves her food - so when she started crying as her dad fed her, he knew something was seriously wrong.

To his horror blood appeared around the mouth of the one-year-old and he pulled out a 1.5 cm shard of glass which had cut his daughter's tongue.

"I came in and she was screaming, with blood dripping down her mouth," said mum Kerrie Daynes, 23, of Old Kiln Road, Upton.

"I had just come back from the doctor's and we took her straight down there."

They were concerned she may have swallowed a piece of glass and were advised to let nature take its course - but nothing appeared.

"She didn't like me afterwards. She wouldn't let me feed her for four or five days," said Kev, 25.

He had warmed up a tin of Heinz vegetable and chicken noodles suitable for a seven-month baby. The food had been bought at Tesco, Fleetsbridge, which immediately took the remaining tins off the shelf.

The tin and glass was returned to Heinz, which sent a £25 postal order to buy Chelsea a treat.

But the response has not satisfied the couple because the company was unable to explain how the glass got into the food.

"We are worried about other babies," said Kev.

"It could happen again. Next time it could be worse, especially with glass that size."

Heinz products are no longer on Chelsea's menu. "It has prompted us to make her fresh food every time," said Kerrie.

Dr Nigel Dickie, Heinz nutritional consultant said the company had carried out a thorough investigation as it did with every complaint.

"We are at a loss to understand how it became associated with the product. We have had no other complaint of this type concerning this product," he said.

"We go to enormous lengths to ensure every one of our processes meets the most exacting standards. There is careful preparation and quality control at every stage.

"There is no glass anywhere near the manufacture of this product, which comes in a can," he added.

First published: Oct 1