Nestle remains silent on child deaths from contaminated pizzas in France

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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2022/04/18/nestle-remains-silent-on-child-deaths-from-contaminated-pizzas_5980892_114.html

Nestlé remains silent on child deaths from contaminated pizzas in France

The food giant is citing the ongoing preliminary investigation into its Buitoni pizzas to avoid making any statement.

By Laurence Girard and Mathilde Gérard
Published on April 18, 2022 at 16h38, updated at 11h27 on April 19, 2022
Time to read 6 min.
Read in French

The families are crushed. An 8-year-old boy died in Paris after suffering from severe hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). A 12-year-old girl is in a vegetative state and no longer reacts to stimuli from her surroundings. A newborn baby died eight hours after birth. A 7-year-old child had multiple cardiac arrests. Others came close to the worst, like one family whose three children, aged 2, 9 and 10, were hospitalized between the end of January and the beginning of February and are still suffering from the consequences.

What these tragedies have in common is that they occurred a few days after the children ate Buitoni's Fraîch'Up pizzas produced in the same Nestlé factory. Analyses have revealed that the pizzas were contaminated by Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria.

A preliminary investigation was opened on March 22 by the Public Health Unit of the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office for "endangerment of others, involuntary injury and involuntary manslaughter." On Wednesday April 13, gendarmes from l’Office central de lutte contre les atteintes à l’environnement (Central Office for the Fight against Environmental and Public Health Violations) conducted searches at Nestlé's headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine), the Caudry factory (Nord) and several other sites.

The French public health agency's investigation with the Pasteur Institute confirmed the link between the HUS cluster and the Buitoni pizza. They identified 53 confirmed cases as of April 13 – including two dead children – and it was investigating 26 others. Lawyer Pierre Debuisson, who is defending 40 of the victims' families, considered the reaction time too slow: "The first hospitalizations occurred in January and the plant's production lines were not closed until March 18. They let the products get sold out and other children were contaminated."

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. A newborn was eating a pizza?

[txwhitedove]

2. Yes, my question also. Maybe from ingestion by the mother?

[secondwind]

4. Mom ate pizza.

[HAB911]

3. Fair Warning to stay away from DiGiorno

That and 100 other reasons

[Probatim]

5. If you want to die from flatulence, I'd suggest DiGiorno.

The ingredients that create the rising crust will also get you thrown out of the bedroom and office.

[HAB911]

6. LOL!