Drugs handed out in New Zealand food parcels in sweet wrappers

The amount of methamphetamine in each sweet was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take and could be lethal, according to the New Zealand Drug Foundation — a drug checking and policy organisation, which first tested the sweets

A pineapple flavoured sweet filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine (Shaun Hill/NZ Drug Foundation/AP)

A charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand, has unknowingly distributed sweet filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamines.

The sweets were found in food parcels after they were donated by a member of the public.