Charles Guyard with Laura Laplaud 1:56 p.m., May 05, 2022
Nine years after the revelations of one of the executives of this slaughterhouse, the Castel Viandes trial opened Thursday morning before the Nantes criminal court.
Three officials are accused of deceiving the merchandise.
They allegedly repackaged and resold spoiled meat, an illegal practice.
The company Castel Meats and three of its leaders appear this Thursday before the Nantes criminal court for deception.
They are suspected of having deliberately sold spoiled meat between 2010 and 2013. A scandal revealed in 2013 by Pierre Hinard, a former quality manager of the company, who claimed that the slaughterhouse recycled meat from unsold supermarkets. .
An already tense context in terms of food security
The reasons which lead the three leaders of the company Castel Viandes, in Loire-Atlantique, before the court are numerous: deception on the nature, on the substantial qualities, on the composition of the goods sold put on the market, of products of origin animals harmful to health, obstacles or impediments to the exercise of control functions, by not reporting unfavorable microbiological results.
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In other words, the legal names to designate an illegal practice in the trade, called the "repackage of spoiled meat" or the "transformation of soiled animals" into minced steaks.
These practices, which date from 2010 to 2013, are judged on Thursday and Friday in a particularly tense context in terms of food safety, with the Buitoni and Kinder scandals in the background.
In Nantes, major brands and brands, McDonald's, Flunch, Fleury-Michon, are also present, but this time, on the side of the civil parties.
Nine years after these revelations, the Castel Viandes company, which today employs 300 employees on fixed-term contracts, has never stopped operating.