BABY MILK
Lactalis salmonella scandal hits 83 countries as family finally owns up
The ‘secretive’ French dairy group Lactalis comes clean after hiding the salmonella outbreak
Paris — A salmonella scandal at French dairy group Lactalis has affected 83 countries, where 12-million boxes of powdered baby milk are being recalled, the company’s CEO said on Sunday. Emmanuel Besnier, scion of the secretive family behind one of the world’s biggest dairy groups, was speaking publicly for the first time since an outcry over claims that the company had hidden the salmonella outbreak at a plant. "We must take account the scale of this operation: more than 12-million boxes are affected," he said, adding that distributors would no longer have to sort through the produce to find the contaminated powder. "They know that everything has to be removed from the shelves," Besnier said. Besnier, who was summoned to the French finance ministry on Friday, promised that all affected families would receive compensation. He said that the consequences of this health crisis for consumers including babies under six months, were uppermost in his mind. "It is for us, for me, a great con...
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