a salmonella alert in Kinder chocolates

Chocolate products are withdrawn from store shelves, one week before Easter. They could be responsible for a hundred cases of salmonellosis since last December in Europe, including 21 in France. Consumers may wonder what is the origin of the contamination? The investigation is ongoing, but we know that salmonella are bacteria that live mainly in the digestive tract of farm animals and we become contaminated by eating products from these animals.

Salmonellosis can cause gastroenteritis and fever. To find this highly sought-after bacterium during controls, the standards are strict. Inspections are made at the infrastructure level, staff hygiene and product traceability. In addition to the regulatory health checks, the factories themselves have a duty to check each stage of their production on a daily basis.