The food giant is citing the ongoing preliminary investigation into its Buitoni pizzas to avoid making any statement.
Highlights
- An 8-year-old boy died in Paris after suffering from severe hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) A newborn baby died eight hours after birth.
- The children ate Buitoni’s Fraîch’Up pizzas produced in the same Nestlé factory in Caudry (northern France) Analyses have revealed that the pizzas were contaminated by Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria.
- A preliminary investigation was opened on March 22 by the Public Health Unit of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office for “endangerment of others, involuntary injury and involuntary manslaughter” The Nestlé Group has battened down the hatches.
- Officially, the Swiss giant no longer wishes to comment.