Bakkersland CEO: asbestos never touched bread

The bread from Bakkersland has never been in direct contact with asbestos, used as insulation for the furnaces, announced CEO Eugene Scholten to RTL Nieuws. Scholten ensures that no bread product of Bakkersland ever made it to the shelves of Dutch supermarkets with asbestos. Bread / Wikipedia "We work with equipment in which asbestos insulation is incorporated," says Scholten. "You have to imagine it is on the outside of the furnace, so that there is no direct contact with the product itself. The moment we had to replace equipment, for whatever reason, that was done in accordance with procedure. Therefore, we can say bread with asbestos never made it to the shelves." One load was retrieved from a distribution center after a problem was detected with one of the ovens, according to Scholten. The batch was retrieved as a 'precaution'. It later turned out there was no asbestos in or on the bread. Previously Bakkersland confirmed to Zembla that asbestos did end up on a batch of bread that was at a distribution center, but it never made it to the stores, because the load was retrieved in time. It's a known fact that bakery ovens sometimes contain asbestos, according to a spokesperson for the supermarket chain Albert Heijn. For that reason the grocery chain examines bread through random checks for the presence of substances that do not belong in bread, including asbestos. The Albert Heijn supermarkets assure the bread on their shelves do not contain any traces of asbestos. "Not now and not in the past," the spokesperson stressed