In “Special Envoy”, a former temporary worker evokes the “fecal matter” discovered in the Buitoni pizza production plant

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This week, the issue ofCorrespondenton France 2. Journalists were interested in frozen foods from the Buitoni brand, which hit the headlines a few months ago… Remember, in March 2022, this brand from the Nestlé group recalled all its Fraich’Up pizzas after the occurrence food poisoning in children and an adult. In question, the presence of the bacterium Escherichia Coli or E.coli. This Thursday evening, we discovered the terrifying images of a factory, in Caudry (Hauts-de-France)…

“What happens behind the curtain is not clean at all”

It was a former temporary worker for 18 months between 2019 and 2020 who gave the alert. He took photos of the manufacturing workshop and sent them anonymously to the independent news site “Mr globalization”. They were first published in May 2021. They include a “mealworm on the carpet”he also explains that “the grease on the machines is several years old”that “the ground is in a deplorable state”.

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This employee assures that he alerted his management, without success. Nothing was done to improve cleaning and upkeep, he says, despite a more flattering brand image than the one he discovered at Caudry. “What happens behind the curtain is not clean at all”, he confides. He also talks about the very questionable hygiene of the employees, many of whom did not wash their hands, which means more bacteria in the food handled. And it didn’t miss.

One day, teams even came to tighten the screw, says this source. He remembers he”there was human fecal matter that was found in the samples”. Three weeks later, the rules were again less observed…

“1g of fecal matter can contain up to…”

And while Nestlé has refuted these accusations of negligence, Correspondent cites a scientific study that states that “1g of faeces can contain up to 1 billion E-coli“, and “only 500 would be enough to make a child sick”.

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