A dozen families whose infants have consumed products from the Craon factory, in Mayenne, have decided to file a complaint against the dairy group according to information from France Bleu.
A dozen parents who gave milk from the Lactalis factory in Craon, in Mayenne, will file a complaint against the dairy group in the coming days. As revealed France Blue, a dozen other complaints could follow by the end of February for “non-assistance to a person in danger”, “endangering the life of others” and “unintentional injuries”. These families want to understand what happened and know if the production chains could have escaped health checks following the revelations of the Chained Duck.
On January 3, in fact, the weekly affirmed that salmonella contamination (on cleaning equipment and tiles) had already been observed in August and November during internal controls, but that the official veterinary controls of the month of September were negative. The checks “were made on a site that does not correspond to the place where infant milk is produced, that’s why we found nothing,” said Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Travert at the microphone of France Info, ruling out any responsibility of the State: “The State was not faulty (…), we could not know”. But when the national fraud investigation group visited the site in December, the report from the Departmental Directorate for Social Cohesion and Population Protection (DDCSPP) – which had validated the checks in September – was nowhere to be found.
Craon’s production line temporarily closed
A first complaint had already been filed in mid-December by Quentin Guillemain, father of a three-month-old infant who had consumed a contaminated batch without having fallen ill. The latter created a collective of victims and has not stopped receiving messages from worried or angry parents ever since. Quentin Guillemain denounces “the indifference of the public authorities” and “the contradictions of the administration”. On December 20, the French Public Health surveillance authority identified 35 babies suffering from salmonellosis since this summer: 31 of them had consumed milk from the Craon factory. A judicial investigation was opened at the end of December by the health pole of the Paris prosecutor’s office and the factory’s production line for infant milk, temporarily closed.
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