Several of these cases are linked to the consumption of Fraich’Up pizzas from Buitoni, produced at the Caudry site, the health authorities have confirmed.
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The prefect of the North announced, Wednesday April 6, to have prohibited the production of pizzas within the Buitoni factory of Caudry. Since the end of February, France has experienced an upsurge in cases of kidney failure in children, linked to contamination with the bacterium Escherichia coli. Several of these cases are linked to the consumption of Fraich’Up pizzas from Buitoni, produced at the Caudry site, the health authorities have confirmed.
“The industrial activity of food production, with regard to the two pizza production lines of the factory” of Caudry is “arrested”, according to a prefectural decree issued on April 1. This decision “follows two thorough hygiene inspections” carried out on March 22 and 29 by agents of the Departmental Directorate for the Protection of Populations (DDPP) in the North and the General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Prevention (DGCCRF), “as part of their investigations carried out in connection with the E. coli STEC alert”specifies the prefecture.
These inspections “highlighted a degraded level of food hygiene control in the Caudry factory, which justified the issuing of an order to cease industrial production activities in the factory”. The repeal of the decree and the resumption of production “will be conditional on the factory’s compliance with its obligations in terms of food hygiene”and “controls and control of microbiological risks”. An investigation for “manslaughter”, “deception” and “endangering others” was opened in this case and was entrusted to the public health center of the Paris prosecutor’s office.