Barry Callebaut announces on Friday the gradual return to service in early August of its Belgian plant in Wieze. Production at the Zurich chocolate maker’s site was interrupted at the end of June following the discovery of salmonella in chocolate batches.
The world number one in cocoa and chocolate products recalls in a press release on Friday that it managed to recall the batches before their integration into the food distribution chain. Lecithin has been identified as the cause of the contamination.
The gradual return to full capacity utilization will follow the progress of the orderly cleaning of the production lines, in the following weeks.
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