US EditionInternational Baby Milk Recall Leads to French Legal Action
Foodwatch and families accuse manufacturers and French authorities of slow response to cereulide toxin risk in infant formula recalled across 60 countries since December.
- In France, Foodwatch and eight French families filed a lawsuit after infants who consumed recalled formula suffered severe digestive problems in a recall spanning over 60 countries.
- Initial warnings in December showed the issue spread by January, and Foodwatch says producers left products on sale in France, more than a dozen European countries, Australia, Russia, Qatar, and Egypt.
- Manufacturers including Nestle, Danone and Lactalis issued recalls since December, while the complaint alleges control delays and French agriculture minister Annie Genevard said procedures were "very well followed".
- A formal complaint requests prosecutors to investigate as two separate criminal investigations follow two infants' deaths, and the European Food Safety Authority will issue an opinion on Feb 2.
- The European Commission asked the European Food Safety Authority to establish a cereulide standard for children's products, as Foodwatch says parents received confusing or insufficient information.
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Consumer group files complaint after infant milk recalls
Consumer group files complaint after infant milk recalls Consumer rights campaign group foodwatch filed a criminal complaint in Paris on Thursday on behalf of eight families whose babies it says fell ill after consuming contaminated infant formula, claiming companies waited too long to warn the public. Several companies, including Nestle, Danone and Lactalis, have withdrawn batches of infant formula in the past month over concerns about possib…
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The Straits TimesInternational baby milk recall leads to French legal action
Eight French families who said their babies suffered severe digestive problems after drinking recalled formula have joined a lawsuit filed by European consumer association Foodwatch.
Nestlé, Danone and Lactalis are at issue in a complaint against X for endangering the physical integrity of infants, aggravated deception and breach of security obligations. Eight families, accompanied by the Foodwatch association, accused, on 29 January, the infant milk giants of having delayed recall of consignments potentially contaminated with cereulide toxin.
Around the largest product recall in the history of the Swiss food company Nestlé – about 60 countries and more than 800 products are affected – the non-governmental organization Foodwatch has now filed a lawsuit. NGO calls for investigations against the companies involved in the recently initiated recall of infant milk. Cereulide, a toxin caused by bacteria, has been detected in some batches. NGO joins eight families with nine sick children fro…
The consumer protection organization Foodwatch has filed a lawsuit against Unknown in France after a bacterial toxin has been detected in milk for infants of several large companies.
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