Authorities are asking who is believed to be holding 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. Analysis “confirmed a link between several cases and the consumption of frozen pizzas from the Fraîch’Up range of the Buitoni brand contaminated with Escherichia coli bacteria”announced in a press release the General Directorate of Health, which depends on the government, while a massive recall of these pizzas has already been initiated 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. Two of them died as a result of these contaminations. In total, according to the latest count established on Wednesday, 41 serious cases have been identified and 34 additional are being assessed.
These 75 cases occurred in 12 regions of metropolitan France: Hauts-de-France (16 cases), New Aquitaine (11 cases), Pays de la Loire (10 cases), Ile-de-France (9 cases), Brittany ( 7 cases), Grand Est (5 cases), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (4 cases), Center Val-de-Loire (4 cases), Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (3 cases), Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( 2 cases), Normandy (2 cases) and Occitanie (2 cases).