Health authorities are asking the people who would hold the pizzas from the Fraîch’Up range not to consume them and to destroy them.
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There is indeed a link between pizzas from the Buitoni brand and certain recent cases of contamination with the bacterium Escherichia coli in French children, the health authorities announced on Wednesday March 30. The range of frozen pizzas concerned is called Fraîch’Up. A massive recall of these pizzas has been underway for two weeks.
Since the end of February, France has experienced an upsurge in cases of hemolytic and uremic syndromes (HUS) linked to contamination with E. coli. These cases, which cause kidney failure, occur in children. In total, according to the latest count established on Wednesday, 41 serious cases have been identified and 34 additional are being assessed. Two of them died as a result of these contaminations, but the health authorities have not confirmed that these deaths were linked to the consumption of pizzas Fresh’Up.
Until now, health authorities believed there was a link “possible” between these contaminations and the pizzas of the Fraîch’Up range. They had therefore already carried out a massive recall in mid-March, asking consumers to destroy these products. From now on, this link is therefore established with certain contaminations, even if the authorities do not specify if this is the case for those which caused the two deaths.
They recall the need to consult a doctor in the event of the appearance, within ten days after eating the pizza, of diarrhoea, abdominal pain or vomiting. The consultation is also essential if, within a fortnight, signs of great fatigue, pallor, or a decrease in the volume of urine, which become darker, appear. “In the absence of symptoms within a fortnight of consumption, it is also reminded that there is no need to worry”concludes the DGS.