 The factory makes some of the firm's best-known brands |
An investigation has been launched into a threat to contaminate biscuits made at a factory in Glasgow. The police were called in after a letter was sent to the United Biscuits plant, where 750 staff are employed.
A forensic examination of the premises is being carried out. No evidence has been found of any contamination.
Strathclyde Police said they were working closely with the Food Standards Agency and liaising with the company as part of the investigation.
A police spokesman said: "We can confirm that Strathclyde Police is currently investigating a threat to disrupt the manufacturing process at United Biscuits factory in Tolcross, Glasgow.
 |  We are working closely with Strathclyde Police to investigate a threat to disrupt the production at our Glasgow factory |
"At this stage, no direct evidence of contamination of any product has been found."
The letter threatening to disrupt biscuit production was received at the
factory on Friday.
United Biscuits denied newspaper reports that the threat involved lacing
biscuit mix with weed-killer.
'No public risk'
It said it was taking the threat "extremely seriously" but insisted that
there was no risk to the public.
A United Biscuits spokesman said: "We are working closely with Strathclyde Police to investigate a threat to disrupt the production at our Glasgow factory.
"As a responsible food manufacturer, we take this issue extremely seriously.
"As soon as we received this threat, we initiated a full and thorough
investigation of the site, our ingredients and our products.
"This issue is currently subject to a police investigation, so it would not
be appropriate to comment further at this stage."
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