Italian chocolate and confectionery giant Ferrero announced on Wednesday it had decided to halt production at its Villers-Ecalles factory in northern France “as a precaution”. According to the multinational behind the world’s most popular chocolate and hazelnut spread, there is no need for consumers to throw away Nutella jars or other Ferrero products they’ve already bought. The food manufacturing plant in France’s northern Seine-Maritime department produces 600,000 jars of Nutella a day, a quarter of the global output. The announcement comes after quality control officers identified a defect in one of the ingredients used in Nutella spreads and Kinder Bueno chocolate bars. "This defect doesn't meet our quality standards, so we've made the decision to temporarily suspend production at the factory."

Source: The Local February 21, 2019 08:01 UTC