Potentially lethal meth sweets unknowingly shared by New Zealand food bank

A pineapple-flavoured sweet filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine is displayed in Auckland, New Zealand (Shaun Hill/NZ Drug Foundation via AP)

Police in New Zealand have so far accounted for 41 chunks of methamphetamine enclosed in sweet wrappers – each a potentially lethal amount of the drug – that were unknowingly distributed by an Auckland food bank.

The authorities were in the process of collecting two dozen more of the contaminated sweets from members of the public late on Friday, police said in a statement, bringing the total number of sweets accidentally shared in food parcels to at least 65.