Swedish supermarket chain ICA has summoned its 1,400 store managers to an emergency meeting this week following a food hygiene scandal.
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A Swedish television documentary revealed that four ICA Maxi stores in the Stockholm suburbs were relabelling unsold meat and changing sell-by dates on the packages.
ICA chairman Kenneth Bengtsson has pledged a “zero-tolerance” approach to hygiene standards amid what he has described as his “worst crisis” in charge of the company.
“There will be zero tolerance as far as breaches of food hygiene regulations are concerned,” Bengtsson said.
ICA’s owners, Swedish investment company Hakon Invest and Dutch giant Ahold, have been kept informed of developments, he added.
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By GlobalDataA Swedish MP has called on the government to launch an investigation of retailers’ food labelling practices.
Stockholm police said they were considering bringing criminal cases against the managers of the four stores.
ICA, which last week unveiled its best November sales figures for decades, said it was launching an external review of its hygiene procedures, to be completed in the first quarter of 2008.
