Salmonella in eggs: FACUA calls on Consumer Affairs to clarify why it has been hiding the outbreak alert for 5 months
Aesan launched an investigation into the sites from which the affected products originated in December 2021, but did not issue any notification to warn consumers or provide information.
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España-23/02/2022
FACUA-Consumers in Action is demanding that the Ministry of Consumer Affairs explain why it has been hiding for five months that a food alert had been triggered following the detection of eggs of Spanish origin contaminated with salmonella in September 2021 in France, an outbreak that has now left 272 people affected and two dead.
In early February, the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the European Food Safety Authority (ECDC and EFSA) produced a joint report compiling the findings of their investigation into this outbreak of salmonellosis, which affects at least six European countries and was caused by a strain of Salmonella enterica.
Of the 272 confirmed cases, 216 are in France, 22 in Spain, 12 in the
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