2023-12-22 23:04:23
The Christmas meal has potentially turned into a poisoned chalice. More than 700 Airbus Atlantic employees fell ill after the Christmas meal at the Montoir-de-Bretagne site (Loire-Atlantique) on December 14, the Pays de la Loire Regional Health Agency (ARS) said on Friday. The affected employees showed “clinical signs of vomiting or diarrhea, the vast majority of which occurred on the days of December 15 and 16,” added the ARS.
An investigation was initiated by the ARS in conjunction with the various Public Health France services and the Departmental Directorate for Population Protection “to find the origin of this food poisoning and take appropriate preventive measures”. said the institution. “The investigations are continuing and are focusing on the festive meal of December 14,” she concluded.
According to West France, the CSE, organizer of the festivities, served around 3,000 meals to employees this famous Thursday, December 14. “We still do not know whether this concerns the Christmas meal or the service the next day, the first cases having been declared on Friday,” questioned Frédérick David, FO Airbus delegate and member of the CSE, interviewed by the daily newspaper of the West .
“All the colleagues with whom I had shared the Christmas meal the Thursday before at the company restaurant had spent the weekend with their heads in the bowl,” testifies Nolwenn, a subcontractor at Airbus, to France Blue Loire Ocean. While many employees pointed out the cheese, for Jean-Claude Iribarren, secretary of the CSE, the hypothesis of an epidemic of gastroenteritis cannot be excluded. “I know quite a few people who have been (sick) without having set foot in the Airbus restaurant,” assured the unionist on the radio.
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