On December 13, two Starbucks stores in Wuxi were exposed to touching the red line of food safety, such as using expired ingredients, tampering with shelf life at will, and scrapping pastries on the shelves the next day.
On the evening of December 13, Starbucks China responded through its official Weibo that after investigation, it had confirmed that the partners (employees) of the two Wuxi stores reported on December 13 did have operational irregularities. We have an unshirkable responsibility to ensure food safety. The situation in these two stores is a high warning of our shortcomings in the daily implementation of food safety standards. In this regard, we would like to express our sincerest apologies to all Starbucks customers.
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He was interviewed by Wuxi Municipal Market Supervision Bureau
According to the Wuxi market supervision WeChat public account, on December 13, in response to the media exposure of two Starbucks stores in Wuxi City, there was a problem of "changing ingredient labels and using expired ingredients", the market supervision department attached great importance to it and immediately organized a special work class to comprehensively carry out verification and disposal work.
The market supervision departments at the municipal and district levels conducted key inspections of the Starbucks Zhenze Road store and Changxing Building store involved, and preliminarily verified that the relevant enterprises had changed the internal control period of food raw materials and used raw materials beyond the internal control period, and ordered the 2 stores involved to close down for rectification. The 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, random placement of items in the processing area, and incomplete disinfection records have been ordered to rectify. The Municipal Market Supervision Bureau conducted an administrative interview with Starbucks (China) Northeast China, requiring the company to conduct a comprehensive self-examination and rectification of existing food safety problems.
In the next stage, 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. From now on, we will deploy special food safety rectification actions focusing on cracking down on false labeling of production dates and shelf life in the city, and make every effort to ensure the safety of citizens.
Source: Starbucks China official Weibo, Wuxi market supervision WeChat public account
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