So Kinder Egg gifts are packed by families in Romania for 22p an hour....

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It's a piece from the Sun so I won't link...there's no reason to think they're lying about this investigation. There's a video of a woman working from her home in Romania.....she's given the components and basically puts the toys in the eggs which are then sent to the confectionery factory.

Piece work. There's no hygiene checks or anything either....though to be honest I'm more upset by the fact that this woman gets so little for her work. Her kids help her too.

It's not on is it?

Surely it's just the toys which are in plastic bags, being put into the plastic eggs. The chocolate will be added later after the plastic container has been washed??

But back to the question at hand; 22p is very low. Surely that can't be right?
Either that or Romanian money comes up trumps against the British pound

Chocolate added back at a factory obviously. There will be no chocolate at the home workers houses.

Like I said it's the equivalent of 1 Leu.. it would buy you nothing!! No one would work for this!

Bread is at least 2 Leu

Guest there's a video on the Sun's website which interviews a lady who is doing the work.

Crisp on the video, the toys were added to the eggs and then put in big bags to go to the factory. I think people are concerned that the eggs are then in contact with the chocolate....and there are no hygiene rules being adhered to.

It doesn't surprise me at all, and they could easily do this in this country. I.e. Home working in your own time, get paid £x per x number of plastic eggs filled (so hard to make minimum wage doing it). Children at home, so get them to join in too.

Plenty of jobs like that in this country too...

Ah sorry guest. I must have missed your post

I would imagine that the eggs are sterilised before going inside the chocolate then so really wouldn't be worried about any hygiene issue.

I would bet the money is probably more than 22p an hour too.

And given how much money by the sun?! Don't believe it one bit.

Crisp the eggs are not watertight so I don't know how they'd sterilise them...and certainly not the interior.

Sporklife life must be so easy for you, having children that don't put small things in their mouths.

I'm also Romanian. Local media has interviewed the family in question since the Sun article was published and the woman is terrified. She claims she couldn't understand all of the questions in English, the Sun promised her husband a job in the UK if she agreed to the interview and her children go to school as normal. Of course this may just be her backtracking due to media attention but there is now an investigation under way and we will soon know more.

If this is true then it'd be extremely unusual, both for Romania in general as well as for a chocolate manufacturer of the this caliber.

Iron she seemed to understand all the questions...answered all promptly but one which her husband translated.

Though I wouldn't put it past to Sun to promise her husband a job I fucking hope they give him one!!!

safe to say we won't be buying kinder again. pretty that they contain dangerous levels of "likely carcinogens".

I felt so sad for the little child packing up other children's kinder eggs that it didn't cross my mind their hands night have been dirty.
That's nothing.

Moaning...it's sad for us all but some of us have OCD or anxiety and to us, it IS something and not "nothing". I'm not ashamed of it...I already suffer enough from feeling afraid of germs thank you very much.

Appears kinder egg have never cared much for hygiene then?

@SoberCurious78 You bumped an over 5 years old thread for no reason?

I know this is an old thread. Did anyone see the cadburys dispatches program?

This is some kind of fucked up world that children in one part of the world aren’t able to go to school to help the family farm chocolate for other kids in another part of the world to eat on their way home from school.

@slashlover It’s not actually not without a reason though . I was searching on Mumsnet if I could find any threads about the recall of the kinder eggs due to salmonella. And came across this one from 2016.