Senegal clears Nestlé of posing a health risk
The government of Senegal has officially cleared the Swiss food multinational, Nestlé, of producing sweetened condensed milk containing unacceptably high levels of bacteria.
It also challenged the Senegal Consumers’ Association (Ascosen), which has for weeks been waging a campaign against the company.
The Association says Nestlé’s sugared UHT milk contains 57 times more bacteria than the permitted limit, and thus poses a health risk.
Speaking to the press in the capital, Dakar, Senegal’s trade minister Khoureyssi Thiam, said the milk was “fit for consumption”.
The president of Ascosen, Momar Ndao, who was with Mr Thiam at the time of his comments, said he did not share the minister’s view.
Nestlé’s subsidiary in Senegal has commissioned a number of analyses, both in that country and in Europe (France, Switzerland and Belgium) to defend its position.
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