In the quiet routines of morning meals, a small but unsettling discovery has interrupted the ordinary: Woolworths New Zealand has recalled its own-brand Multi Grain cereal after fragments of blue plastic were found to have potentially entered some 500-gram boxes bearing a best-before date of April 30, 2027. No injuries have been reported, yet the supermarket has moved swiftly to pull the product from shelves and invite customers to return it for a full refund — a reminder that even the most mundane staples carry with them the complex, fallible machinery of modern food production. The incident