This became painfully apparent in 2018, when an undercover investigation was carried out into a 2 Sisters Food Group factory in West Bromwich,106 which is the largest supplier of chicken flesh to UK supermarkets and produces one third of all poultry products eaten in the UK. The investigation discovered that the workers there, under instruction from supervisors, had tampered with food safety records, which could have led to consumers being duped into buying flesh that was past its use-by date by switching labels.
