Overview
- Spain’s food safety agency issued new RASFF alerts and ordered precautionary withdrawals of additional lots, including Almirón and Bledina products imported from Ireland and Babybio items from France.
- The ECDC reports eight suspected cases in Spain with rapid-onset vomiting, five requiring hospitalization and now discharged, with no laboratory confirmation or established causality.
- French authorities have recorded a third infant death following consumption of suspected formula, while the health ministry says imputability is unproven and judicial investigations are ongoing.
- Preliminary analyses point to arachidonic acid (ARA) oil as the likely vehicle for cereulide, leading manufacturers such as Danone, Nestlé, Lactalis and Babybio to expand preventive lot withdrawals.
- European surveillance has noted compatible pediatric cases in the UK, France, Belgium and Denmark, as EFSA evaluates cereulide limits and Spain’s Health Ministry reinforces epidemiological monitoring.