The father had left his gun in a hotel room, where the boy found it, played with it and then accidentally fired a shot, Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, Chip Simmons, said. The shot first hit the one-year-old girl, then the bullet injured another two-year-old. The girls’ mother was the gun owner’s girlfriend, a multiple-time felon, Simmons explained at a news conference.
In response to the European notification regarding the recall of some Kinder Surprise products from some European markets,
The Ministry of Economy and Trade confirms that it started more than a week ago to follow up on the matter, as follows:
The Ministry of Economy and Trade confirms that it started more than a week ago to follow up on the matter, as follows:
1- It was confirmed by the agent company in Lebanon for the trademark Kinder that it had stopped importing the item subject of the notice more than a year ago.
2- Teams of the Consumer Protection Directorate inspectors inspected the warehouses of some importing companies that import this brand from international markets in a parallel import manner. Quantities of the goods have been seized until it is ascertained that they are not directly concerned with the notification in terms of the batch number and country of origin.
3- The Ministry’s inspectors toured some points of sale to verify that the aforementioned brand was not offered. Quantities of the same brand were seized and samples were sent to laboratories to ensure their conformity with the relevant specifications.
As the Ministry of Economy and Trade stresses that it is carrying out its duties towards the Lebanese citizen in order to preserve his health, it wishes the concerned departments and ministries to play a supervisory role within the framework of their competence and in accordance with legal texts, including the Consumer Protection Law, which clearly states that the implementation of the provisions of the law is carried out by consumer protection monitors and concerned employees in Several ministries, including the Ministry of Public Health, each within the limits of his competence.
Beirut / Naim Berjawi / Anatolia
On Friday, the Lebanese Minister of Health, Firas Al-Abyad, asked to withdraw the products of the Italian company Ferrero, the manufacturer of Kinder chocolate eggs, from the local market.
This came in an official request that Al-Abyad addressed to the Ministry of Economy, in which he called on it to withdraw Ferrero products from the Lebanese market as quickly as possible in order to preserve public safety.
Al-Abyadh said that his request came following Ferrero admitted in a statement that there were internal loopholes, and following stopping the work of its factory that produces “Kinder” chocolate in Belgium, following its products were suspected of causing salmonella infections.
He pointed out that the Italian company (Ferrero) “withdrew in the past few days Kinder products present in European markets, the United States and many Arab countries due to concerns regarding products made in its Belgian factory in Arlon, suspected of being a source of an outbreak of salmonella.”
Lebanon is the tenth Arab country to move once morest the famous Kinder chocolate following Bahrain, Qatar, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, the Sultanate of Oman, Kuwait and Jordan, as these countries have taken measures to ensure that their markets are free of them.
And in early April, the company “Ferrero” recalled products from “Kinder” chocolate made in Belgium, following recording dozens of salmonella infections in Europe.
And salmonella bacteria cause in most cases fever, headache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal cramps and diarrhea.
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The Minister of Public Health, Firas Al-Abyad, sent a letter to the Minister of Economy and Trade, Amin Salam, to withdraw the goods of the Ferrero company that manufactures “Kinder” chocolate eggs from the Lebanese market, “following stopping the work of its factory that produces “Kinder” chocolate in Belgium, following its products were suspected of causing salmonella infections. , as stated in the book.
Subsequently, the media office of the Ministry of Health stated, in a statement, that “Minister Firas Al-Abyad’s letter to the Minister of Economy and Trade, Amin Salam, to withdraw the goods of the company (Ferrero) that manufactures chocolate eggs (Kinder) from the Lebanese market is due to the receipt of a warning from the international network of authorities concerned with food safety. In order to preserve public health, the Minister of Health sent a letter to the Ministry of Economy, which has the authority, to withdraw food products from the Lebanese market as quickly as possible, provided that Send a subsequent letter as soon as the complete lists with numbers of contaminated mixtures are received.
Earlier this month, Italian confectionery group Ferrero announced that it had recalled Kinder chocolate eggs in several European countries due to possible links to dozens of cases of salmonella less than two weeks before Easter.
Products from the Ferrero factory in Arlon, Belgium, have been sold in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany and Sweden.
British authorities have also warned citizens regarding Kinder products in connection with a “possible link to an outbreak of salmonella” involving children, and Ferrero said it had issued the recall as a “precautionary step”.
At that time, a British official announced that the number of salmonella cases in Britain had now risen to 63. In France, 21 cases have been reported and 15 have taken Kinder products, which have now been recalled, according to the French Public Health Service. The average age of patients in France is four years.
Salmonella is a type of bacteria that can cause symptoms including diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps, and is one of the most common types of foodborne infections.
