Botulism: three victims of contaminated complain tapenade

The first three of the eight complaints from victims of contaminated tapenade made ​​by the company La Ruche in Cavaillon (Vaucluse) were recorded on the morning of Tuesday in the Superior Court of Amiens (Somme).

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Eight cases of serious food poisoning was reported a week ago, in these two departments, after consumption of canned olive tapenade contaminated with botulinum toxin.

"The three youths who were hospitalized in our department has filed a complaint against X this morning," says noon on Tuesday the secretariat of the Office of TGI Amiens. "They were sent to the prosecutor's office should centralize all Avignon". At this time, no other complaints have been registered. "The lawsuit was filed against X as a precaution because the investigation is to determine the responsibility," said Catherine Champ-Renaud, the prosecutor of Avignon.

For its part, the DGCCRF, the Department of Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control, is continuing its research to see where it came from the product and if the problem of sterilization of canned food is concerned. "A few dozen products were returned to consumers. For now, sun dried tomato tapenade and only revealed the toxin, but analysis is ongoing," said Marie Taillard, spokesman for the DGCCRF. "We found that entrerise the past had been controlled, but no abnormality was out that way," he adds.