On June 30, local time, Swiss chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut said that after discovering the presence of Salmonella contamination, the company's factory in Wiese, a town in the Flanders region of Belgium, has stopped production, and here is also The world's largest chocolate factory.
A spokesman for Barry Callebaut said that day that the measures taken by this Belgian factory were protective shutdowns, and most of the contaminated products are still in the factory.
It is reported that the factory does not produce chocolate products for direct sales to consumers, but provides liquid chocolate to 73 candy and other food processing companies. Among them, 72 companies have immediately suspended external shipments after receiving the notice, mainly involving products produced since June 25, to prevent potentially contaminated products from being sold. Currently, there are no reports of consumers being diagnosed with salmonellosis due to consumption of related products. The main symptoms of this food-borne illness are diarrhea and fever.
The Belgian food safety department stated that it had received a notification from Barry Callebaut and had begun an investigation into the incident. Swiss chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut, headquartered in Zurich, has more than 60 factories around the world and provides cocoa and chocolate raw material products to many global food industry giants such as Nestlé and Unilever. The world's largest chocolate factory in Belgium sold 2.2 million tons of products from 2020 to 2021. In the last fiscal year, Barry Callebaut's net profit was 385 million Swiss francs , equivalent to approximately 2.7 billion yuan.
Previously, in April, the Italian chocolate manufacturer Ferrero 's factory in Arlon, Belgium, was closed for rectification due to salmonella contamination. On June 17, the Belgian food safety department announced that it had approved the restart of the Italian giant's factory and entered a three-month testing period. After the testing period is passed, formal production can be carried out.
column editor: Qin Hong Text editor: Cheng Pei Source of title picture: Visual China Picture editor: Xu Jiamin
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