Arrest warrants have been issued for senior Nestlé executives in Bangladesh after their KitKats were found by the local food inspectorate to be “substandard” and a risk to public health.
The chocolate-covered wafer bars imported into Bangladesh have too much acidity and too little milk solids, likely meaning that they were rotten, according to food inspectors.
Nusrat Sahara Bithi, a special metropolitan magistrate at a food safety court in Dhaka, has asked the police to arrest Deepal Abeywickrema, the MD of Nestlé Bangladesh, and Riasad Zaman, the company’s public policy manager, after laboratory tests confirmed that KitKat chocolates imported and sold in Bangladesh failed to meet legally required quality standards.
