Published: 5 Mar 13 17:02 CET | Print version
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Health authorities in China have confiscated nearly two tonnes of chocolate cakes imported from Sweden by Ikea after finding high levels of bacteria commonly found in the human intestinal tract.
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http://www.voanews.com/content/china-promises-improvements-as-congress-opens/1615289.html
(Ie, I wonder if someone failed to bribe someone. Ikea doesn't like bribing people.)
Go to Ikea, do not eat meatballs and skip the cake :)
Think twice before order something!
There are some rules for sanitation from government, but it looks like no one accept them.
And do not forget about Swedens people habits to eat everywhere without washing hands, putting dirty fingers in mouth to search something stucked between tooths.
Agreed. I once worked a shift at a student-run pub, after that I never want to eat there again.
People in Sweden don't wash their hands often compared to other countries. Could be due to Sweden is in general more clean, but such practice is really needed elsewhere or in the food industry. I've seen Swedish kids pick up food from the floor and stuff into their mouth. In any other country it would've cause the parent making the kid spit it.
I suspect Wal-mart.
But now jokes apart, I have been reading news about food getting mixed up with different substances for the last couple of years in Sweden. I thought, may be it would be different now that I came to a developed country, but I guess few things never change regardless of what rules are imposed... or whatever country it is.
Allegedly founded by a person with strong ties to a NAZI background.
Employed slave labour east Germany to make their furniture.
Had to remove a large portion of its contaminated food after illegal contents of horse were found to be in it.
And now there are reports of poo in the food.
I dont think this is a conspiracy, what more do expect from a company so closely associated with Nazi Germany?
@Peter1234: There is always a tough competition between the top three big economies. But for rest of the economies, no body cares or bothers to launch any conspiracy as they can easily be controlled by the top two big economies!
There is a recipe for this cake on the movie, "The Help."