Nestlé is indignant at the media treatment of its factories.
The company ensures this Thursday that all the tests carried out on its site in Caudry, in the North, which produces Buitoni brand pizzas, some of which have been contaminated with E.
coli, were negative.
Moreover, the firm regrets that the incriminating images disseminated in the press do not correspond to the “usual” state of the factory.
The company closed the two production lines in Caudry, where 200 people made pizzas marketed mainly in France.
On March 18, it recalled all the Buitoni pizzas from the Fraich'Up range after the identification of a possible link with E contamination.
coli.
75 “negative” tests
Since the end of February, France has experienced a resurgence of cases of kidney failure in children linked to contamination with E. coli.
Some of these cases are linked to the consumption of Fraich'Up pizzas, health authorities confirmed on Tuesday.
Nestlé took 75 samples from the production line concerned and throughout the factory, "all negative", Pierre-Alexandre Teulié, general manager of communication for Nestlé France, told AFP.
“The priority is to find the cause of the contamination,” he added.
"It's never dirty like that"
Some of the photos of a dirty production line, broadcast in May 2021 on a website, Mr Mondialisation, and taken up by RMC on Thursday, indeed seem to have been taken within the factory, he admitted.
But "what they show does not represent the normal, usual or acceptable state of the factory," said Pierre-Alexandre Teulié.
"If this corresponds to a reality", it could only be specific situations, "after a breakdown" or "during the cleaning process", he specified, stressing that unannounced checks carried out in September 2020 and March 2021 had not identified any deviation from the regulations.
"It's never dirty like that," assured an employee on condition of anonymity.
“Less” cleaning since 2015
The CGT agrifood federation for its part deplored a reorganization of the factory in 2015 which, according to it, affected hygiene.
“Since then, the cleaning time has been reduced, and carried out by less well-trained people.
This is what we have been denouncing for years, at Nestlé as elsewhere, ”said Maryse Treton, of the CGT agrifood federation.
Nestlé said the lines were deep cleaned for 5 hours after a maximum of 27 hours of production.
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