Unilever, Coca Cola, Nestle and Delta decided to preventive withdraw some of their products from the super market shelves and all points of sales after threats of contamination were posted on Greek internet on Tuesday.
According to Greek media, the threat text was uploaded on the website of the anti-authoritarian scene on Monday afternoon and set Greek authorities including the counter-terror department on alert.
The text stated that an unknown group had contaminated various food products of the four companies with chlorine and hydrochloric acid and had put them back on the shelves of major supermarkets in Athens.
The anonymous authors describe exactly what products they contaminated and how.
Police and Security mobilized the counter-terror department, the Health Ministry and the Food control Agency as they do not consider the anonymous message as a bluff but as a real action staged by anti-authoritarian groups.
Following the warning, withdrawn have been:
-Hellmann’s Caesar Salad Dressing (plastic bottle, 235 ml)
– Pummaro “classic” and “more concentrated” (Carton of 500gr and 520g respectively)
– Nestea Ice Tea Peach (500ml plastic bottle, plastic bottle 4×500 pack)
– Nestea Ice Tea Lemon (500ml plastic bottle, plastic bottle 4×500 pack)
– Coca-Cola Light (500ml plastic bottle, plastic bottle 4×500 pack)
The three companies have set phone lines for consumers:• Coca-Cola: 800-11-55800
• Unilever: 800-11-99099
• Νestea: 800-11-55800
DELTA withdrew Fresh Milk 1 liter package from Athens supermarkets.
All companies are closely cooperating with authorities.
A similar action had reportedly taken place short before Christmas 2013, where authors of a tax uploaded on the internet warned that they had contaminated beverage cans with hydrochloric acid.
