France is experiencing a resurgence of contamination of children by the bacterium Escherichia coli. It is largely linked to Buitoni Fraîch’Up pizzas.
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Two complaints were filed with the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office after the detection of contamination by the Escherichia coli bacterium, largely linked to the consumption of Fraich’Up pizzas from the Buitoni brand, franceinfo learned on Friday April 1 from the public prosecutor’s office. In all, there were 75 cases of poisoning, the vast majority of children, two of whom died.
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These two complaints were filed by parents whose children were hospitalized. “Investigations are underway to determine if it is indeed the E. coli strain”, explains the parquet floor of Bordeaux. According to information from franceinfo, other complaints from parents will be filed in the coming hours.
The Nestlé group, manufacturer of the Buitoni brand pizza, assured that it did not want to take “no risk to consumer health”while the first tests, carried out in the Nestlé factory in Caudry (Nord), which produces the pizzas, all came back negative. “Our only priority is to find the cause of contamination”, says Pierre-Alexandre Teulié, Nestlé’s general manager of communications. The group recalled the entire range of its product on March 18 and shut down its Caudry site for ten days.