These include special surprise eggs and advent calendars, each with a best-before date of April 20, 2022, as can be seen from an overview published on Thursday on the Lebensmittelarning.de portal.
Only Bavaria, Berlin, Hesse, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein are affected by the extension of the recall, according to the portal operated by the German Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety and the federal states.
No case in Austria yet
According to Ferrero, selected batches of “kids” products made in Belgium are affected by the recall. It is “about a possible connection with a number of reported salmonella cases”. Although none of the “kids” products tested positive for salmonella, Ferrero takes the matter very seriously, “because consumer protection is our top priority.”
Ferrero had previously recalled a number of “kids” products, including several Easter items. In addition to Germany, many other countries are affected by the recall, even Australia. According to the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), there has not yet been a case in Austria.
In Europe, the EU food safety authority EFSA and the EU health authority ECDC started investigations. The two authorities had spoken of 105 confirmed salmonella cases and 29 suspected cases on Wednesday, most of them in children under the age of ten. Certain chocolate products have been identified as a likely route of infection.
Source: Nachrichten
