Nestlé has announced that it is facing criminal charges regarding a 2022 E. coli outbreak in France that was traced to pizzas.
The judges leading the case filed charges against Nestlé France and Société des Produits Alimentaires de Caudry (SPAC), a subsidiary of the company, this past week.
The criminal
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The number of children who suffered a potentially fatal complication of E. coli infection in France reached a record high in 2022, influenced by the Nestlé pizza outbreak, according to statistics recently released.
Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which can be a complication of E. coli infection, is a type of kidney
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Nestlé France has agreed to a compensation package for people affected in a 2022 E. coli outbreak.
The agreement between the company and the families of victims was signed at the end of March. The amount has not been made public.
A civil hearing was set to take place in
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Nestlé has decided to shut down a plant in France that was involved in an E. coli outbreak linked to pizzas in 2022.
A total of 56 confirmed and two probable cases with a median age of 6 were sick in the outbreak between mid-January and April 2022 because of
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Nestlé is looking at closing a site in France where contaminated pizzas were produced in 2022. Two children died in the outbreak.
The Force Ouvrière union said it believes the central reason for the issue was the E. coli outbreak linked to frozen pizzas from the Fraîch’Up brand.
During a
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Nestlé has been given permission to partially reopen a plant in France where pizzas behind a serious E. coli outbreak were made.
French officials from the Nord area of the country in the Hauts-de-France region gave the green light this past week for operations to restart at the Buitoni factory
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Two major foodborne outbreaks have recently been highlighted at a European conference on infectious diseases.
Presentations at the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) covered an E. coli outbreak from Nestlé pizzas in France and a multi-country monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak due to Ferrero chocolate.
In February
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Nestlé is looking to resume operations at a factory that was at the center of an E. coli outbreak in France earlier this year.
Approval from French authorities is still pending but if granted, the Caudry plant will restart in November.
A total of 56 E. coli cases and two
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Woodbridge, IL-based Home Run Inn Frozen Foods is recalling approximately 13,099 pounds of frozen meat pizza product that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically metal, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) reported Sunday.
The frozen meat pizzas were produced on June 6, 2022. The following product is subject
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French authorities have stepped up their investigations related to an E. coli outbreak in the country linked to pizzas made by Nestlé.
The latest figures from Santé publique France show 56 cases and two deaths from Buitoni brand Fraîch’Up pizzas.
The Paris prosecutor’s office opened a criminal inquiry into the
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