Nutella crisis averted as world’s largest factory reopens after five-day shutdown over hazelnut ‘quality defect’

The world’s largest Nutella factory restarted production on Monday after it stopped work for five days as a precautionary measure over a “quality defect”, owner Ferrero’s French branch said.

The factory in Normandy, France stopped making the chocolate-and-hazelnut spread due to a “suspected quality defect strictly limited to the production stage”, Ferrero France said.

It added that the problem was “very early in the process, at the stage of grinding and roasting hazelnuts”.

“The factory started up again this morning at 6am. We are at 100 per cent production capacity.”