Foodstuffs | A Swedish confectionery company has to destroy hundreds of thousands of kilos of chocolate

Swedish the confectionery company Cloetta has to destroy hundreds of thousands of kilos of chocolate, reports the Swedish public radio company SVT and after that, among other things Expressen and Aftonbladet.

According to SVT, the reason is the palm oil used by the confectionery manufacturer, which is suspected of containing cancer-causing substances.

Since a health risk cannot be ruled out, Cloetta must destroy 850 tons, or 850,000 kilograms of chocolate, including Kexchoklad and Polly sweets, which are also sold in Finland.

According to SVT, the company is now figuring out how it practically disposes of a large amount of chocolate.

Confectionery company tells SVT that he received information about the contaminated palm oil even before the chocolates ended up on the market.

Swedish media made news in April that the contamination of Malaysian palm oil was detected in Denmark, where reports had been received from the same supplier of raw materials used by Cloetta.

Cloetta says that the company’s chocolate production will now continue flawlessly.

“This is not a common phenomenon, but since it is about the health of the consumers, we are of course always extra careful,” Cloetta’s director of communications Laura Lindholm says to SVT.

of the EU food safety agency wrote in 2017 in his reportthat palm oil contains carcinogenic and other harmful substances.

food industry use palm oil in sweets, biscuits and margarines, among other things.