French health authorities have confirmed 7 children are sick in an E. Coli outbreak in the city of Lille. The children are believed to have been sickened by frozen hamburger patties manufactured by SEB and sold in French branches of the German supermarket Lidl.
The outbreak prompted SEB to issue a recall and Lidl to pull the frozen patties off their shelves. The meat was sold under the name “Steak Country” and has a sell by date of May 10–12, 2012.
SEB said the patties contained meat from animals slaughtered in Belgium, Holland and Germany. “We will have to await the test results to say which is contaminated,” SEB chief executive Guy Lamorlette told AFP.
Officials say the outbreak is not linked to a widespread E. Coli outbreak in Germany that has sickened more than 3,000 people and killed 37 others. The German outbreak came from bean sprouts and was not the same strand of E. Coli that sickened the French children.
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