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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Price Chopper removed a brand of black seedless grapes from the shelves at its Newington supermarket Thursday after a woman said she found a poisonous black widow spider.

Sheryl Rosen of Rocky Hill bought a bag of Autumn Royal black seedless grapes on sale Tuesday. It wasn’t until Thursday, when she was eating some grapes at work, that she found the spider in the bag.

“I couldn’t believe it,” said Rosen, who was not injured. “I never thought I’d see a black widow around here.”

The spider was taken to the Connecticut Poison Control Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center, where Rosen works, and verified as a black widow.

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