Production resumed on Wednesday at the Buitoni pizza factory in Caudry, in the North.

She had been off for nine months after serious cases of poisoning by the bacterium Escherichia coli.

Only one of the two production lines is working, the one where frozen pizzas with cooked dough are made, authorized to reopen since a decision by the prefecture on December 16, said Nestlé, owner of Buitoni.

The line producing raw dough pizzas from the Fraîch'Up range, suspected of having caused the death of two children and the poisoning of dozens of others, has no authorization.

It remains suspended "until further notice", Laurent Manologlou, a spokesman for Buitoni, told AFP.

“How will consumers react?

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The pizzas produced, intended for sale in France, should reach the shelves within three months.

"This is good news, but we don't know how consumers will react," reacted Stéphane Derammelaere, Force Ouvrière delegate at the factory.

“We are still worried about the future.

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An agreement was signed on December 1 to allow early retirement "on a voluntary basis", said Nestlé.

According to FO, out of 185 employees, there could be around sixty voluntary departures, including 40 to 45 people likely to go on early retirement, while negotiations must open for departures to other Nestlé factories or other projects.

After searches in Caudry and at the headquarters of Nestlé, in the Hauts-de-Seine, a judicial investigation was opened in mid-May, in particular for involuntary homicide against a person and involuntary injuries concerning 14 others.

The prefecture, which had pointed the finger at “the presence of rodents” and the “lack of maintenance and cleaning” to explain the closure, estimated on December 16 that “control of the conditions for the production of pizzas” had now been achieved in the cooked pasta line.

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