Tsingtao apologizes in wake of urine scandal

Weathering an ongoing corporate reputation crisis, Tsingtao Brewery said on Wednesday that the worker who was filmed urinating into a large malt container at one of the company's plants in Pingdu, a county-level city in Shandong province, has been detained by the police.

The Chinese beer brand apologized and said in a statement that it has acknowledged the management loopholes and pledged to implement measures to standardize the production process and enhance personnel management to prevent such incidents from happening again.

"The company has strictly implemented a quality control system by employing fully enclosed dumping vehicles for transporting raw materials to avoid contact between people and ingredients and we have upgraded the monitoring system with artificial intelligence technology to consolidate effective monitoring of the whole process," said the company statement.