\n<\/p>\n
French, Swiss food giants Danone and Nestle have also recalled infant formula batches in recent weeks over toxin fears.<\/em><\/p>\n Published On 22 Jan 2026<\/span>22 Jan 2026<\/span><\/p>\n Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n share2<\/p>\n French dairy product giant Lactalis has announced a recall of batches of infant formula in France and more than a dozen other countries over worries batches have been contaminated by a toxin.<\/p>\n The announcement on Wednesday follows the recall of infant formula by Swiss dairy corporation Nestle in almost 60 countries since the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/p>\n Lactalis \u201cis proceeding with a voluntary recall of six batches of Picot infant milk, available in pharmacies and mass retail, due to the presence of cereulide in an ingredient supplied by a supplier\u201d, the company said, referring to the toxin that can cause diarrhoea and vomiting.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are fully aware that this information may cause concern among parents of young children,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n Outside France, the recall affects Australia, Chile, China, Colombia, the Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Spain, Madagascar, Mexico, Uzbekistan, Peru, Georgia, Greece, Kuwait, the Czech Republic and Taiwan, a spokesperson for the company told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n The recall involves \u201ca few batches\u201d of formula in each of the countries, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n The company said the French authorities had not signalled \u201cany claim nor any report related to the consumption of these products\u201d.<\/p>\n The infant formula industry has been rocked by recalls in recent weeks.<\/p>\n Authorities in Singapore on Saturday recalled Dumex baby formula, a brand owned by French food giant Danone, as well as batches of Nestle formula.<\/p>\n The \u200d Singapore Food Agency said it ordered the precautionary recall of a batch of Danone\u2019s Thai-origin Dumex Dulac 1 and Nestle\u2019s Swiss-origin NAN HA1 SupremePro after detecting cereulide.<\/p>\n Danone said the authorities blocked just \u201ca few pallets\u201d of Dumex, indicating they were not yet on the shelves of retail outlets.<\/p>\n Like Lactalis, Nestle has issued recalls since January due to the potential presence of cereulide, a bacterial substance that can cause sickness.<\/p>\n Nestle France said it was carrying out a \u201cpreventive and voluntary recall\u201d of certain batches of its Guigoz and Nidal infant formulas after new investigations showed the potential presence of cereulide.<\/p>\n French health authorities said on Tuesday an investigation was under way after the death of a baby who had consumed milk from one of the batches recalled by Nestle, though no link has been established between its consumption and the death at this stage.<\/p>\n In 2018, Lactalis was at the centre of a salmonella outbreak and ensuing scandal after the company was accused of trying to cover up the extent of the outbreak, which led to the recall of 12 million tins of baby formula from more than 80 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" French, Swiss food giants Danone and Nestle have also recalled infant formula batches in recent weeks over toxin fears. Published On 22 Jan 202622 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share French dairy product giant Lactalis has announced a recall of batches of infant formula in France and more than a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[631,4972,1466,3953,1609,37,22351,1193,150,2330,7671],"class_list":{"0":"post-42367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-baby","9":"tag-contamination","10":"tag-firm","11":"tag-formula","12":"tag-french","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-lactalis","15":"tag-latest","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-recall","18":"tag-scare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n