Lactalis aware of the contamination for months, according to Le Canard Enchaîné

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Published the 03.01.2018 to 15h20

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It’s been months that Lactalis knew. The first contamination with salmonella have been detected in last August. The information was revealed in le Canard Enchaîné of 3 January.
Tests were however carried out by the veterinary services in September, but no contamination had been reported. 1300 lots of products for children manufactured in the factory of Craon in Mayenne, were withdrawn from the market in December, in France and abroad.
The company Lactalis Nutrition and Health has identified two times the presence of salmonella, August and November. The bacteria were present ” on the cleaning equipment and on the floor “. Nothing has been said as this is not required, legally, for this type of companies to report on the controls carried out in-house.

The report of the veterinary services not found

Surprisingly, the controls carried out in September by the departmental Direction of social cohesion and protection of populations (DDCSPP). These tests were negative in September, while the company has identified the presence of salmonella just before and after. A fact that queries to the experts.
When the group of investigation national Fraud visited the site in December, the report of the DDCSPP was not found. The complete closure of the plant has been ordered by order of the prefect, tan part of the plant that produces milk that produces grain.

Nothing new according to Lactalis

Asked by Allodocteur.fr the direction of communication of Lactalis accurate that the authorities have been informed about all these facts.
“We’re in a very controlled, and in a relation of total transparency,” says Lactalis, which specifies that the contaminated lots, which have since been removed, have been produced in the beginning of the year and therefore prior to this period.
A transparency which had been questioned in December by a former producer of milk to Lactalis, interviewed by Europe 1, who thought that analyses internal had been carried out regularly and that Lactalis had to know for the contamination. But the strains of salmonella are not dangerous, it was thought that the direction was ” left spun “.

In total, 35 infants were infected, 16 were hospitalized. Today, all are in good health today. The parquet de Paris opened an investigation. Complaints have been filed for ” involuntary injury “, “endanger the lives of others” and ” deception “.