(CercleFinance.com) – The Lactalis group has claimed 1 billion euros from Eurofins Scientific in the context of the affair of infant milk contaminated with salmonella according to the person informed. This case dates from 2017 and dozens of babies had been contaminated.
‘A summons to the Paris court was filed at the end of March and targeted two subsidiaries of the group, accusing them of failure by not having detected bacteria in Lactalis products in their bacteriological control process’ reports Invest Securities following the article of the informed.
‘As a reminder, in 2018, the CEO of Lactalis, Emmanuel Besnier, questioned the reliability of the tests in the largest microbiological testing laboratory in Nantes, especially since more than 16,000 analyzes had been carried out in 2017’ underlines Invest Sécurities .