Specialists recommend the population no to use the Celia milk powder for babies

11:45, 14.12.2017

Giorgi Mikadze, Head of the Food Safety Department of the National Food Agency recommends the population no to use the Celia milk powder for babies until the end of the research.

Mikadze made the regarding statement during the program “Actual Topic with Maka Tsintsadze” .

Georgia’s leading pharmaceutical companies stopped selling Celia milk powder for babies at drug stores. Baby formula is being pulled from shelves around the world after French authorities ordered a leading dairy company to stop selling hundreds of products because of concerns about food safety.

PSP and Aversi network of drug stores made the decision to withdraw the products after they had learnt that French firm Lactalis was recalling baby formula destined for markets due to discovery of salmonella in the products.

French firm Lactalis is recalling formula destined for markets in China, Greece, Pakistan and Peru after 26 infants fell ill with salmonella poisoning in France.

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