The repeal of the decree and the recovery of the production “will be conditional on the compliance of the factory vis-à-vis its obligations in terms of food hygiene”, and “of controls and Mastery of microbiological risks “.
Le Monde with AFP
After several serious cases of child contamination by the Escherichia coli bacterium and deaths, possibly related to the consumption of these products, the prefect of the North has banned the production of pizzas within the Buitoni plant in Caudry.
“The industrial activity of food production, with regard to the two pizza production lines of the” Caudry “factory is stopped”, can we read in a prefectural decree taken on the 1 April that the France-Presse Agency (AFP) could consult, confirming chained duck information.
This decision “follows two in-depth hygiene inspections” carried out on March 22 and 29 by agents of the Northern Development Departmental Executive Directorate (DDPP) and the General Directorate of Competition, the Consumption and repression of fraud (DGCCRF), “As part of their investigations related to E. coli Stec alert,” said Prefecture at AFP.
These inspections “have highlighted a degraded level of mastery of food hygiene at the factory of Caudry, which justified the taking of an order of cessation of industrial production activities in the factory”. The repeal of the decree and the resumption of production “will be conditional on the compliance of the factory vis-à-vis its obligations in terms of food hygiene”, and “controls and control of risks Microbiological “.
Wave of contamination
Since the end of February, France has been a recrudescence of renal insufficiency cases in children related to E. coli contamination. Many of these cases are related to the consumption of Buitoni Fraich’Up pizzas, produced on the Caudry site, confirmed the health authorities.
If these intoxications generally pass without damage in a dozen days, they can in rare cases cause complications, above all in young children and the elderly. This is most often a “hemolytic and uremic syndrome” (Shu). This can result in acute renal impairment and serious blood problems, with as a consequences a coma or death.
Nestlé has completed 75 levies on the manufacturing line concerned and throughout the factory, “all negative”, brought back on March 31 to AFP Pierre-Alexandre Teulié, Director General of the Nestlé France Communication. An investigation for “involuntary homicides”, “deception” and “attenuation of others” was opened in this case on March 22, led by the public health cluster of the Paris Prices.