A preliminary investigation was opened in Paris on Thursday following the cases of salmonellosis in Kinder eggs, the Paris prosecutor's office said.
More than 3,000 tons of Kinder products have been withdrawn from the market in total after numerous cases of salmonellosis in Europe, with a "financial impact" of "several tens of millions of euros", announced the general manager of Ferrero France in a interview with
Le Parisien
published at the end of May.
“According to our investigations”, the contamination would come from “a filter located in a dairy butter tank” of the Arlon factory in Belgium and would have arrived there “either by contaminated raw materials, or by people” , explained Nicolas Neykov, who speaks for the first time since the start of the health scandal.
As a reminder, at the beginning of April, with the approach of the Easter holidays, the Italian confectionery giant Ferrero had recalled all the products manufactured in its factory in Arlon, Belgium, after the report of dozens of cases of salmonellosis. possibly linked to the consumption of its chocolate products in several European countries.
According to a latest report from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) as of May 18, 324 cases – 266 confirmed and 58 probable – of salmonellosis have been identified in thirteen European countries including the United Kingdom.
Children under 10 are the main victims of this infection, but no deaths have been recorded at this stage, according to EFSA.
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