Escherichia Coli alarm in France, where a 12-year-old ended up in a vegetative state after eating the Buitoni frozen pizza of the Fraîch’Up brand, as the parents denounced: the product, which is not marketed in Italy, has been withdrawn and the investigations of the health authorities have confirmed another 50 cases.
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Léna, 12, from France, ended up in a vegetative state after developing one infection of Escherichia Coli. “It no longer reacts, no longer communicates, no longer responds to sound and visual stimuli”, the parents told the newspaper Le Figaròwho also added that the couple filed a complaint, saying that their daughter had eaten one before feeling ill frozen pizza Buitoni of the line Fraîch’Up, a type not sold in Italy but ended up under accusation precisely in the country beyond the Alps for dozens of cases of contamination reported since the beginning of the year. But let’s take a step back and try to understand what happened.
Since February in France there has been a return of hemolytic and uremic syndromes (SHU) linked to contamination by Escherichia -coli. According to the public health institute as of April 6 the cases recorded would be 50distributed in 11 French regions, e two children would have died. According to the newspaper The world the bacterium may have contaminated the brand’s pizza dough. During the epidemiological and microbiological investigations, the presence of Escherichia coli O26 in the dough of a pizza found in the freezer of a family in which there was a case of haemolytic-uremic syndrome.
The same company later published on the own website a statement in which she explained that she was informed “on March 29 by the Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud (DGCCRF), that cases of infection, some serious, could be linked to the presence of E-coli bacteria in the pizza dough Frozen del Fraîch’Up “, adding that” we would like to show our support to the affected families. quality and the safety of our products are and will remain our priority. We will also respect the directives of the authorities to understand what may have happened and assume all our responsibilities “.
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On March 17, Buitoni’s note reads, “as soon as we were notified of a possible connection with one of our products, we immediately decided to retire all Fraîch’Up pizzas for sale, all deliveries stopped and production suspended. At the same time, a toll-free number (0 800 22 32 42) was set up and our distributors and consumers were informed of the measures to be taken to prevent the consumption of these pizzas. We renew to all our consumers the request for do not consume the pizzas Fraîch’Up they still have in their possession and throw them away. To date, the source of the bacteria present in pizza Fraîch’Up remains indeterminate. All our teams are mobilizing to carry out our research and the authorities are continuing the tests and samples necessary for their investigations. “
The one in Léna, therefore, is only the latest story that could be connected to the contamination of Buitoni pizzas in France. The 12-year-old’s parents recalled that the little girl “stuck out her tongue and began to see double” after eating the product. Taken to hospital – always according to what she reports Le Figarò -, Léna would have been put in artificial coma. And when she woke up she would remain in a vegetative state. Since then she has been admitted to the hospital in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle). However, remember that this product, characterized by a raw dough that rises and cooks in the oven, and for this reason requires longer cooking times than classic frozen pizzas, it is not marketed in Italy. In a note, the company specified that “all our products sold in Italy are safe and suitable for consumption. We would like to point out that the ongoing recall of the Fraîch’Up frozen pizzas concerns exclusively the references of this range produced and marketed in France. The Buitoni brand pizzas produced in the Benevento plant sold in our country have no bearing on this recall “.
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