2 Sisters Food Group suspends operations after discovered meat fraud
The investigation covered by The Guardian and ITV News claimed that workers were mixing meat of different ages and they also tampered with the slaughter dates on poultry products.
The threat posed because of this practice is that in case of an outbreak of food poisoning the meat products would be untraceable.
Several supermarkets, including Marks & Spencer, Adli, Lidl, and Tesco, have announced they will no longer be taking poultry meat or poultry products from the company's plant from West Bromwich until the investigation is finalized.
Following the allegations, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) declared it had not found evidence of breaches during the inspection at the company's factory.
2 Sisters Food Group responded promptly after the charges and said that it takes the allegations extremely seriously:
"Since the allegations were put to us by the Guardian/ITV, we have been working around the clock to get to the truth of the matter.
We responded immediately by launching our own internal investigation at our West Bromwich plant and invited the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to independently review our standards.
The FSA has been in daily attendance since the allegations were raised and confirmed that it has not identified any breaches.
However, our internal investigation has shown some isolated instances of non-compliance with our own Quality management systems.
We have therefore decided to temporarily suspend operations at the site to allow us the time to retrain all colleagues including management in all food safety and quality management systems," the company's statement read.
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