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Is health security in decline?

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How are the food controls carried out?

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By: Romain Auzouy

1 min

Searches took place this Wednesday, April 13, in a Buitoni factory in northern France and at the headquarters of its owner Nestlé.

The reason: the discovery, a few weeks ago, of pizzas contaminated with E. coli bacteria and which caused the death of two children.

Two other health scandals have since erupted: Kinder chocolates infected with salmonella and products from Fromageries de Normandie (Lactalis), potentially contaminated with listeria.

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Where are the malfunctions?

How are the food controls carried out?

How to explain such a sequence at a time when traceability seems to be strengthening and where a culture of eating well is developing?

To discuss

:

  • Karine Jacquemart

    , director of

    foodWatch

    .

  • Pierre-Étienne Bouillot

    , lecturer at AgroParisTech, specialist in food safety law.

  • Eric Oswald,

    professor of bacteriology at Toulouse, deputy director of the Inserm Digestive Health Research Institute.

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