Lavazza coffee contaminated with discarded pods

The coffee world, and the entire Italian coffee supply chain, was deeply shocked by an episode of the television program "Report," which discussed a strange coffee production process by Italy's most famous brand: Lavazza. Thanks to fieldwork and the testimony of an employee with an unrecognizable voice at the Gattinara plant in the province of Vercelli, an absurd and risky method of producing and packaging coffee was uncovered. In practice, in the department where all the packaged coffee waste arrives, it is recovered by mixing it with the coffee that then ends up on supermarket shelves, and from there in our homes. Stripped of all its organoleptic qualities, Lavazza coffee thus becomes contaminated and tasteless.

To give an idea of ​​the gravity of this affair, journalist Bernardo Iovene, author of the Report investigation, discovered that the ground waste – contained in damaged, defective or even used for internal controls capsules, which should absolutely be thrown away – is processed through a series of machines and then ends up diluted in 250-gram packets, while previously the same waste was sold to a company that produced fertilizer.

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