UPDATED June 6, 5:31 p.m. ET: An Aldi spokesperson confirmed on Saturday that the eggs are not those of the Brazilian Wandering Spider:
The safety of our customers is our absolute number one priority and as such, the bananas in question were immediately removed from the store as a precautionary measure. Following independent expert analysis, we can confirm that the eggs in question were totally harmless and not from the Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria fera). Whilst our bananas are of the highest quality and delivered by one of the world's largest suppliers these incidences, whilst extremely rare, can occur and we apologise for the distress caused to Mr. Hobbs and his family. The Watling Street Store in Hinckley is now fully open to customers.
LONDON -- The venom in this spider can kill a human in a matter of hours, so it's no surprise that emergency services in England took swift action and closed a UK supermarket Thursday night after a family found the bag of bananas they bought contained Brazilian Wandering Spider eggs.
The family, who says the banana were purchased at a local Aldi store in Nuneaton, called local police. Their home is being fumigated and the grocery store was also closed for a time.
Warwickshire police confirmed to Mashable that they were called at 10:10 p.m. on Thursday to St. Nicolas Drive in Nuneaton about what was thought to be eggs of a Brazilian Wandering Spider in a bag of bananas.
Council and environmental health have also been made aware, the police stated. Currently, they do not know for certain what type of spider laid the eggs.
The Nuneaton and Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary was called in to search the house for the spider and to take the eggs away for identification, according to the Nuneaton News.
In a statement emailed to Mashable, a representative from Aldi said the reports were unsubstantiated.
Recent reports alleging that the eggs of the Brazilian Wandering Spider have been found in a bunch of bananas at the Aldi store in Hinckley are unsubstantiated. The bananas in question have been removed from the store and sent for expert analysis. The Hinckley store in question has now been reopened and customers should be reassured their safety remains our number one priority.
Last week, a Brazilian Wandering Spider was found in a warehouse in Tamworth, Staffordshire, which is about 16 miles away from Nuneaton. Discovered near wooden pallets from South America, staff at Bristol Zoo said the female spider could have been the largest seen in the UK.