Food & drink industry Undercover in the chicken industry Chicken safety scandal: government failed to take ‘definite action’, say MPs Parliamentary committee says no concrete steps have been taken to improve food inspection regime despite inquiry Tesco inspectors reported serious breaches of food standards at a 2 Sisters processing plant last year. Photograph: Sean Smith/for the GuardianThe government has failed to take “definite action” following a parliamentary inquiry last year into food standards at the country’s largest supplier of supermarket chicken, a committee of MPs has said. In December, leaked documents showed how Tesco food standards inspectors had unearthed a series of “major” process issues at a second 2 Sisters Food Group factory, on the same weekend that separate concerns prompted the West Bromwich closure. The supermarket’s auditors gave the 2 Sisters chicken plant in Scotland what they described as a “red” warning rating, after identifying process failures that the retailer “insisted … were addressed immediately to prevent any food safety issues”. In December, 2 Sisters Food Group said that the October factory inspection in Scotland did not show “any risk to food safety … This is using old news to highlight issues which were resolved with our customer two months ago.”

Source: The Guardian January 26, 2018 16:55 UTC