The Tsingtao Brewery, based in China, is embroiled in controversy following a widely circulated video allegedly depicting an individual, purportedly a worker at one of the company’s factories, urinating into a tank.
The footage, shared on Thursday on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, captures a man in a worker’s uniform engaged in the act of urinating into the tank, as reported by the BBC.
As of now, Tsingtao has not officially verified whether the individual involved was an employee of the factory.
According to a Chinese-language business publication quoted by the BBC, both the person seen urinating in the tank and the individual recording the video were not “direct employees” of Tsingtao.
Tsingtao Brewery issued a statement asserting that the batch of malt within the tank had been isolated and sealed off from further use. They reported the incident of urination at the “first opportunity,” as per CNBC.
“The company places high importance on the media reports and has reported the matter to the public security authorities at the first opportunity. The public security authorities are presently involved in the investigation,”
