Consumer finds unusual ingredient in pudding label in Argentina

Some do this every time they pick up a product from the supermarket, but not everyone has the habit of analyzing the ingredients of the items they will purchase. Now imagine your surprise if you bought a product that would bring in the label information no less than 12 grams of cocaine?

That's what happened to a consumer who bought a simple pudding from a Carrefour store in Argentina. In a joint action, he went to check the nutritional information of his vanilla pudding purchased at this hypermarket and found the unusual fact that cocaine was on the ingredient list.

Obviously, he took a picture of the product and played it on the internet, causing success on social networks with countless jokes about what happened. According to El Espectador, a Facebook user posted: "Pablo Escobar from heaven must have thought, 'Why didn't I think of that before?'"

Apology

The French retail group, which has more than 500 stores in Argentina, has apologized to its customers saying that what happened was a fake label. "It was a bad joke made by an employee of the company that provides our brand puddings, " the company said in a statement.

Then the pudding supplier acknowledged the mistake and stated that the toxic substance is not present in the product, saying it was "sabotage". The company sent an email to Carrefour, which released the clarification. Check out an excerpt below:

Messrs. From Carrefour Argentina,

My name is Ariel Eduardo Margot. I am a food engineer and director of the Bon Mase company. We produce some of Carrefour Argentina's baked goods. What happened was sabotage by a company employee who printed the labels by stating that word.

Despite being a young company, we perform all quality tests to ensure the safety of our products. Unfortunately we suffered this lousy action at a point where there was no proper oversight. The puddings have been removed from all over the country and we will take improvement actions so that it will not happen again.

The Ministry of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires inspected the Bon Mase factory, located in Pilar Industrial Park. "As we can see, a factory worker would have put the word 'cocaine' instead of 'total fat' deliberately and maliciously, " said Cabinet chief Monica Lopez.

The health agency ordered the removal of all batches of products from the market, as a preventive, even with the recognition of the company saying it was just sabotage in printing the label. Go that ...