Portugal without cases of salmonella associated with Kinder products – Current Affairs
in response to SAPO24the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) originates that “there are, to date, no gastrointestinal cases reported in Portugal that may be of diseases associated with the European outbreak”.
According to the health authority, “on April, a food product associated with an outbreak of salmon in several European countries was identified, and an alert was released within the scope of the International Network of Food Safety Authorities”.
Two days later, the Directorate-General for Food and Veterinary Medicine (DGAV) informed the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) “that Portugal will be outside the traceability of this product”. That is, “it will not have been distributed directly to the national market”.
“As far as the operators’ traceability at this time allows us to say, the contaminated product batches were not appropriate for Portugal”, adds the director general of Food and Veterinary, Susana Guedes Pombo, to Lusa.
The official added that Portugal, through DGAV Rede as the national contact point for the Rapid Alert for Food and Feed (FF), “has been monitoring this matter, with the involvement of all national and European authorities, including the Directorate- General of Health”.
The brand’s chocolate products made in Belgium were withdrawn for various reasons from the market on suspicions that they could have been from 21 identified salmonella countries without cases, eight of which required hospitalization.
The Directorate-General for Health revealed today that its patients were informed about the presentation now of the products to have product on the days of intoxication of the patients to the presentation now of the products to have presented in the symptoms of intoxication those to the Ferrero presentation.
The products in question are Kinder Surprise in a 20 to gram format, Kinder Schoko-Bons with a shelf life between the end of April and the end of August, Kinder Happy Moment and Kinder Mix with a shelf life end of August. , in different formats.
All these chocolates were made in Ferrero’s own factory, in the Belgian city of Arlon.
Cases lasting from the same age to the UK and the estimated age in France – and reports associated to the same age with a UK age estimating chocolates, are also associated with specific products, Kinder, stresses the French health authority.
Cases lasting from the same age to the UK and the estimated age in France – and reports associated to the same age with a UK age estimating chocolates, are also associated with specific products, Kinder, stresses the French health authority.