Pittsburgh Family Finds Buckshot In Ribs From Wal-Mart

A local family said it found something suspicious inside a pack of ribs.

Saturday night the family ate ribs that Shawn McFarland had bought at a Wal-Mart in West Mifflin.

On Sunday morning, everyone who had eaten the meat developed stomach cramps, nausea and diarrhea.

They claim they found small pieces of metal in the meat. Police later confirmed that the metal was buckshot embedded in the meat and bone.

Patricia Hinson said, "We came over my daughter's house to have a nice family dinner. I didn't know we'd all wake up Sunday morning sick. You worry about eating out and having food poisoning. Who'd think you'd bring your food home and it's not safe."

The family said that doctors at UPMC South Side Hospital later diagnosed nine of them with food poisoning.

Wal-Mart refused to return Channel 11’s calls. Smithfield Foods, the distributor of the meat, stated that further questions would have to go through their legal department.