Arc-En-Ciel pharmacy reassures its customers after powdered baby milk produced by French company Lactalis was said to be contaminated with salmonella.
Marie Noella Mugarurinka: “The milk imported in Burundi is safe”
In pharmacies that Iwacu visited, Lactalis product mainly imported in Burundi known as Picot milk was removed from the shelves. Some pharmacists met on ground say they were warned that those products were contaminated with salmonella.
Arc-En-Ciel pharmacy, Burundi importer of Lactalis products, reassures its customers. “Our products are safe. They were produced in 2016 and 2015 while the contaminated milk was produced from 15 February 2017,”says Marie Noella Mugarurinka, Arc-En-Ciel pharmacist.
Mugarurinka adds the pharmacy has sent a correspondence to the ministry of health with all the documents proving that the baby milk is safe.
She recognises the decrease of the demand at the market place but hopes that the situation will soon be clarified. She asks parents to check the manufactured date before buying the milk.
The ministry of health issued a warning on January 11 warning consumers of Lactalis products that there are contaminated lots that were produced following an international warning released by the producer itself in December 2017.
Arc-En-Ciel, the only drugstore that imports Lactalis products in the country, says Burundi is not concerned by the warning.
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