Icelandic food industry salt involved in "misreading" commodity labeling authorities for 13 years

Icelandic officials confirmed on the 17th that many food companies in Iceland have mistakenly used industrial salt as salt for food because of “misreading” commodity labeling, and that it was used for 13 years. Right now, the company has issued an apology statement and the authorities are involved in the investigation.

The Ergolding Group is one of Iceland's major importers of food raw materials, and many Icelandic food and beverage manufacturing brands are customers of this importer. The company imports salt from abroad and then resells it to other food manufacturers for the processing of various types of food and beverage.

Agence France-Presse reported on the 18th that Ogeldin has imported a bag of salt from a Danish company for food processing and distribution since 13 years ago. Actually, this salt is an industrial salt and is mainly used on roads. Snow melting, chemical product manufacturing, etc.

André Tol Gwezmenson is the CEO of Ogerding. He acknowledged that the packaging of bags of salt imported from Denmark was marked with industrial salt, but employees did not respond because they understood the error.