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Police in Great Brak River have issued a warning to residents to be alert after pills were recently found in packets of chips.
Sergeant Laurianne Botha said the pills were found in different brands of chips, allegedly bought from spaza shops in Wolwedans, Greenhaven and Friemersheim.
She says they are particularly concerned about young children who may be able to buy these products.
It is not yet known what type of tablets were found.
Botha said police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery, adding that the products will now be tested.
Meanwhile, the supplier Truda Foods has stated that pills could not have ended up in its packets of chips.
Although it is not yet known what type of tablets were found, a spokesperson for Truda Foods, Sloane Lang says the only way it could have ended up in there is if someone opened the package and put the pills inside.
Sloane says after the pill complaints were received, various law enforcement officers, including the police, as well as the provincial department of health and welfare, conducted inspections at the spaza shops where the chips are believed to have come from.
Botha says that packets of chips were opened at these shops, but no pills were found in them and the shops meet the necessary requirements.
