Covert photos showing bare-footed noodle factory workers standing in the ingredients has put a bad taste in noodle-lovers’ mouths.
The online pictures even show an employee of the Dongguan factory taking a nap in the foodstuff before it was packed for distribution.
This is not the first time this Tongcheng Rice Noodle Factory has been involved in a food hygiene scandal having promised to clean up their act just last year.
A Food and Drug Administration spokesman said the undercover photographs show the staff playing "soccer", barefoot, with their makeshift noodle ball.
"They are trampling over them as they walk about and even laying down to take their afternoon naps before packaging them up and shipping them to stores,” the spokesman said.
"We will not tolerate such breaches of the health and hygiene laws."
One of the online comments posted underneath the images read: 'It’s shocking and hard to believe these pictures.'
'Let us call it stinky feet rice noodles forever,' said another, while a third added: 'It is disgusting to think we have eaten so much rice noodle before from this company. We will never eat them again!'
Dongguan Food and Drug Administration said the pictures were taken before the Chinese Spring Festival on January 31 and officials have shut it down while stringent health checks are carried out.
The operators face heavy fines and possible prison sentences for contravening basic codes of hygiene.
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