two new complaints will be filed on Friday

Two new complaints will be filed on Friday February 10 by two families in the case of the health scandal of contaminated Buitoni pizzas, franceinfo learned from their lawyer Nathalie Goutaland.

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These two complaints will in particular be filed for “endangering the lives of others through lack of imprudence, negligence, or breach of an obligation of prudence or safety provided for by law or regulation”, and “deception aggravated” against the Nestlé group, owner of Buitoni, as well as against the production site of Caudry (North), where the pizzas were made.

These two complaints will be filed with the health center of the Paris prosecutor’s office on the initiative of two families from Vienne and Hérault, whose 7-year-old and 1-year-old girls had been infected. One of the two girls had had kidney damage and had been hospitalized, the second had had violent gastroenteritis. Today, they have no more sequelae.

Quality and product safety in the viewfinder

The families consider that the Caudry production site did not have the necessary health approval to sell the pizzas. The complaints also point out that the potential dangers of using the ingredients have not been analysed.

The two families of these 7-year-old and 1-year-old children also believe that consumers have been deceived about the quality and safety of the products, with damage to consumer health. Contacted, Buitoni did not wish, on this date, to react to these new complaints with franceinfo.

On March 18, 2022, Nestlé recalled its pizzas and closed the two production lines of the Buitoni pizza factory in Caudry (Nord) after cases of serious poisoning by the Escherichia coli bacteria. The line producing raw dough pizzas from the Fraîch’Up range is suspected of having caused the death of two children and the poisoning of dozens of others.