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full screen Cloetta is to destroy 850 tons of chocolate candy. Archive image. Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT
Cloetta has decided to destroy 850 tons of chocolate after the alarm in April that palm oil in the products is suspected of containing cancer-causing substances, reports SVT Nyheter.
These include Kexchoklad, Sportlunch and Polly. Cloetta received information about contaminated palm oil before the chocolate hit the market and the goods were stopped in the company’s warehouse.
The company has its headquarters for commercial operations in Malmö, and the matter therefore landed on the table of the city of Malmö.
– Cloetta has carried out an investigation ourselves and after dialogue we have concluded that it is not possible to rule out health risks. Therefore, they have concluded that it should be destroyed, says Arvid Nordlund at the environmental administration in Malmö, to SVT.
Cloetta is now investigating how to destroy the chocolate.