Hygiene at Nestle candy factory under spotlight
By Saladin Xu |
January 30, 2013, Wednesday
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SWISS food giant Nestle is investigating one of its factories in north China's Tianjin City after an undercover reporter found workers making candies with their unwashed bare hands.
Some workers didn't have health certificates and some didn't wash their hands, use gloves or wear protective masks, the Qingdao-based City Sun newspaper reported.
The newspaper also said that while Nestle announced last March that it had stopped using artificial additives in its food products in the United Kingdom, workers in Tianjin were found using flavoring essence in peppermint candies.
The reporter said he took a job at the factory on January 18 with five other people but none of them had a certificate to show they were healthy, a breach of the factory's rules.
A worker surnamed Zhang told him that it took about a week for new workers to get certificates, but the factory put them to work straight away.
In the factory, hardly any of the workers was seen wearing a mask while making candies or ice-cream, again a breach of factory rules. And although workers are required to wash their hands before handling products, many said they didn't need to if senior officials weren't around.
An official at Nestle's Beijing headquarters surnamed Li told Shanghai Daily yesterday officials had been sent to Tianjin to investigate. Nestle will not tolerate any violation of factory rules, Li said.
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