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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 07:22 AM Oct 2020

Company failed to report screws found in its pizza dough

The Scarborough company that manufactures the pizza dough that is the focus of a razor-blade tampering investigation has revealed that it failed to report three complaints it received from customers who found metal screws in its dough.

It’ll Be Pizza, which made the dough sold at Hannaford in which razor blades were found in August and October, received reports of dough balls containing screws that were sold at three other Hannaford stores in September. But the company did not report those incidents – not to vendors, the police or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency that oversees its manufacturing process – until after Saco police went public this month with news that razor blades had been found in It’ll Be Pizza dough sold at Hannaford stores in Saco and Sanford.

The company revealed the three cases to the Press Herald after the newspaper filed a records request with public health officials under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

The company says it withheld the information while struggling to make sense of conflicting customer reports while confirming that the screws found in the dough weren’t used in its dough making machinery. It then hired a private detective to track down a recently fired ex-employee, Nicholas Mitchell, who now sits in jail facing charges in the Saco tampering that involved razor blades.

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/10/26/company-failed-to-report-screws-found-in-its-pizza-dough/

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Company failed to report screws found in its pizza dough (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Oct 2020 OP
WOW Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #1
How does something like this happen? dewsgirl Oct 2020 #2
They need a metal detector. CaptYossarian Oct 2020 #3

dewsgirl

(14,964 posts)
2. How does something like this happen?
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 07:32 AM
Oct 2020

When I was young maybe 18, I ordered a scone at a cafe we used to go to, I had a fairly large piece of glass in it. I was so young, I didn't even inform them.
I think back to my teenage years and often wonder, what was I thinking?

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