The world's largest chocolate factory, discontinued production!

On June 30, local time, Swiss chocolate producer Belle Galianbao said that after the discovery of Salmonella pollution, the company's factory in the Urizawa factory in Flandes, Belgium has been discontinued, and it is also the world's largest chocolate factory. Essence

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A spokesman for Belle Gali Bao said on the same day that the measures taken by the Belgian plant are protected from production, and most of the polluting products are still in the factory.

It is reported that this factory does not produce chocolate products directly sold to consumers, but provides liquid chocolate for 73 candy and other food processing companies. 72 of them have immediately suspended delivery after receiving the notice, mainly involving products produced since June 25, to avoid potential polluting products sold out. At present, it has not received reports from consumers who have been diagnosed with Samen disease for consumer -related products. The main symptoms of such food -oriented diseases are diarrhea and fever.

The Belgian Food Safety Department stated that it had received a notification from Belle California and began investigating the incident. Swiss chocolate manufacturer Belle Garlibao headquarters is located in Zurich, with more than 60 factories worldwide, providing cocoa and chocolate raw materials for many global food industry giants such as Nestlé and Lianlihua. Its product sales of this world's largest chocolate factory in Belgium were 2.2 million tons of products from 2020 to 2021. In the last fiscal year, the net profit of Belle Gali Bao was 385 million Swiss francs, or about RMB 2.7 billion.

In April, Italian chocolate producer, Ferrero, was closed and rectified in the factory in Alon, Belgium. On June 17, the Belgian Food Safety Department announced that it had approved the restarting factory of the Italian giant and entered a three -month test period. It was officially produced after passing the test period.

Source: CCTV Finance

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