By Tessa Wong

SABOTAGE is being cited by the owner of a popular bakery here, after ingredients for its best-selling cakes and chicken-mushroom pies were found reeking of chlorine.

The Royals, which has five outlets selling cakes and pastries, had its factory in Bedok North shut down by the authorities after staff discovered the contamination on Sunday morning.

Its director Joy Tang, 49, said that when its workers opened a tub of chicken-mushroom pie filling, they smelt a strong bleach-like odour. They also noticed a pale layer of liquid on top of the filling.

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