A Canadian grocery store employee was suspended after he appeared to use his own saliva to clean shopping baskets amid the coronavirus pandemic — in a disturbing incident caught on camera, according to reports.

Toronto resident Marta Casimiro was shopping in a local FreshCo supermarket when she spotted the unidentified man seeming to spit into a small white towel before using it to wipe down baskets, according to CityNews. Outraged and disgusted, she filmed the sickening act and reported it to the store’s manager.

“I couldn’t believe that. I was in shock…I feel sick,” she told the outlet.

Casimiro’s worries about the health-ramifications from the contaminated carts, however, were ignored by the supermarket manager — who she said refused to take her concerns seriously.

“The [manager] protects his worker. He said he didn’t want to see the video. He didn’t believe me and he treated us very badly,” she told CityNews.

She then sought help from higher-level management at FreshCo, only to hear back many days later that the cleaner was suspended, the outlet reports.

“We cannot allow such things to be overlooked. I’m furious and very disappointed,” Casimiro said. “We are living in a pandemic…how do you think we feel? This is terrorism for me.”

Sobeys, the parent company of FreshCo, said the employee was a third-party service provider and confirmed he is no longer working at the store in a statement provided to CityNews.

“[It is] completely against the standards we work so hard to achieve in our stores each day,” Jacqueline Weatherbee, the Vice President of Communications & Corporate Affairs at Sobeys, told the outlet.

“The health and safety of our customers and teammates is our top priority — that has never been more true than right now, through the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Sobeys has also launched an internal investigation to gather more information on the FreshCo employee and the Toronto store, Weatherbee added.