Eurofins has called a compensation claim against one of its labs by Lactalis in relation to a 2017 Salmonella incident “frivolous.”
Production at Lactalis’ Craon site in France was suspended in December 2017 as part of a Salmonella Agona outbreak investigation. Lactalis was allowed to restart sales of infant formula
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Lactalis is facing criminal charges in France in relation to a Salmonella outbreak in 2017 linked to its infant formula.
The dairy company confirmed it was under criminal investigation and said it would cooperate with authorities.
Prosecutors brought charges for fraud, a failure to carry out a product withdrawal and
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A French agency has made a number of proposals to help improve the control of microbiological hazards in powdered infant formula.
The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES) was asked by the Directorate General for Food (DGAL) in December 2018 to look at these products
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Lactalis has made three separate recalls in the space of one week in England and Australia.
The recall in England involves a cheese potentially containing Listeria monocytogenes. Two recalls in Australia of milk are because of chemical contamination and E. coli.
In England, Lactalis McLelland Ltd. recalled “Galloway Colored Medium
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Lactalis has recalled a brand of infant formula made at the same Spanish factory linked to a Salmonella outbreak in France. The withdrawal and recall measure concerns 16,300 boxes of Picot AR milk sold exclusively in pharmacies since Nov. 29, 2018.
Four babies have been sickened by Salmonella Poona with
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Editor’s note: Today Food Safety News takes a look back at the most significant recalls in Europe and Asia in 2018. As in past years, our year-end coverage is not merely a list of individual stories by individual writers. Generally, significant events are the other way around. Multiple stories by
Continue Reading Europe, Asia posted recalls for products from infant formula to beer
Two children, both younger than 3 years old, are ill in France after eating raw milk cheese contaminated with E. coli O26, according to authorities. The children have developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a type of kidney failure that can be fatal, particularly in young children.
The French Ministry of
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Lactalis has been allowed to restart sales of infant formula made at a plant in France that was behind a Salmonella outbreak in 2017.
Authorities in Mayenne, a department in France, and the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food authorized the resumption of sales of the infant formula from the
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Lactalis has been given the green light to restart production of infant milk formula at a plant that was linked to a Salmonella outbreak, but products made there cannot yet be sold.
French authorities agreed to the gradual resumption of packaging and drying activities of infant milk powders at the
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Negative news keeps piling up for French dairy giant Lactalis, which recalled 12 million cans of baby milk in December because of a multi-country Salmonella outbreak traced to the product.
Forty infants across France, Spain and Greece have been confirmed in the Salmonella Agona outbreak. Lactalis distributed the product to
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