Viller­s-Ecalle­s site in Norman­dy produc­es around 600,000 jars a dayFRANCE: The world’s largest Nutella factory restarted production on Monday after it stopped work for five days as a precautionary measure over a “quality defect”, owner Ferrero’s French branch said. The factory in Normandy, France stopped making the chocolate-and-hazelnut spread due to a “suspected quality defect strictly limited to the production stage,” Ferrero France’s communications service said. It added that the problem was “very early in the process, at the stage of grinding and roasting hazelnuts.”“The factory started up again this morning at 6:00 am (0500 GMT). We are at 100 per cent production capacity.”The Villers-Ecalles site in Normandy produces around 600,000 jars a day, or about a quarter of all the Nutella made worldwide. Nutella’s Italian owner Ferrero, whose products also include Ferrero Rocher chocolates, first announced production had been suspended on Wednesday.

Source: The Express Tribune February 25, 2019 18:00 UTC