On December 13, according to media reports, two Starbucks stores in Wuxi city frequently touched the red line of food safety: ingredients continued to be used after expiration, and made into a variety of best-selling drinks for sale; supervisors and clerks "taught by example" to tamper with the shelf life, and some ingredients were "extended" for a week; pastries that promised to "not stay overnight after opening" were secretly put on the shelves the next day. On December 13, the market supervision departments at the two levels of Wuxi City and District conducted a key inspection of the Starbucks Zhenze Road store and Changxing Building store involved.
At 22:00 on the evening of the 13th, the Wuxi Municipal Market Supervision Department issued the inspection results: preliminary verification of the relevant enterprises to change the internal control period of food raw materials, the use of raw materials beyond the internal control period, has instructed the 2 stores involved to close for rectification.
In addition, the Wuxi Municipal Market Supervision Department simultaneously carried out inspections of 82 other Starbucks stores in the city, and found that 15 problems such as employees not wearing work hats, messy placement of items in the processing area, and incomplete disinfection records have been ordered to rectify. The Wuxi Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision conducted an administrative interview with Starbucks (China) Northeast China, requiring the company to conduct a comprehensive self-examination of the existing food safety problems and implement rectification.
Subsequently, Starbucks issued a statement apologizing: "After investigation, we have confirmed that the partners (employees) of the two Wuxi stores reported on December 13 did have operational irregularities... In this regard, we would like to express our sincerest apologies to all Starbucks customers. ”
It is reported that the Wuxi Municipal Market Supervision Bureau will continue to organize forces at the municipal and district levels to conduct in-depth investigations of the 2 Starbucks stores involved and seriously investigate and deal with them according to law. And in the city to deploy and carry out food safety special rectification actions focusing on cracking down on false labeling of production dates and shelf life, to ensure the safety of citizens' food.
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Li Shu
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