Nestlé asks to partially reopen its Buitoni manufacturing facility in November

One of many two manufacturing traces of the Buitoni manufacturing facility in Caudry (Nord) from which the pizzas contaminated by the E. coli micro organism, linked to the dying of two youngsters and dozens of poisonings, got here out, might restart in November 2022.

However this will likely be performed “topic to the settlement of the authorities”, a spokesperson for Nestlé France advised AFP on Thursday.

On the similar time, the group revealed a number of outcomes of inner analyzes carried out by the corporate itself: these affirm, based on Nestlé, ‘essentially the most possible speculation of contamination of the flour by the E. coli STEC bacterium’ , one of many strains of this bacterium.

These analyzes have been carried out in Could and June on flour delivered to the manufacturing facility on March 22, simply after the outbreak of this well being scandal. This flour was saved in a number of of the mill’s silos.

Contamination from flour delivered by a provider was one of many hypotheses raised by the boss of Nestlé France in an interview with Figaro in July and by staff in a France Inter survey. However different attainable causes have been put ahead, equivalent to cleansing and hygiene circumstances.

An investigation by the well being authorities can also be underway, the outcomes of that are unknown at the moment.

Nestlé France, which says it has taken greater than 2,000 samples, claims to not have detected any micro organism on the manufacturing traces and their atmosphere (partitions, grids, and so forth.).

Based on the spokesperson, E.coli was on frozen pizzas from the Fraîch’Up vary produced between October 2021 and February 16, 2022.

The group, which needs to attempt to regain client confidence after this huge well being scandal, signifies that it has since put in place a “restart protocol” for the manufacturing facility regarding solely one of many two manufacturing traces, the one which was not involved. by contamination, once more based on the spokesperson.

That of Fraîch’Up pizzas stays suspended ’till additional discover’.

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