Morocco’s National Office for Food Safety (ONSSA) has announced a precautionary recall of some apparently compromised health products for infants.
This follows an international health alert concerning certain consignments of infant formula.
The potential presence of Bacillus cereus — a bacterium that produces the cereulide toxin — prompted the decision to preventively withdraw the identified batches from the market, ONSSA confirmed.
In a statement, ONSSA said it had been notified through international health surveillance networks of a potential risk linked to certain infant formula batches. As a precautionary measure, the office suspended and initiated the recall of several consignments across multiple brands intended for infants and young children.
ONSSA immediately notified the relevant importing company, instructing it to pull the identified consignments from shelves without delay. In parallel, several of the consignments have been seized and stored by the importer pending destruction. Recall and return operations are currently underway, and all products covered by the alert will be permanently disposed of. The affected products are sold under the Nursie and Aptamil brands, in 400-gram and 900-gram containers.
The consignments targeted by the alert carry an eight-digit lot number beginning with 2026 or 2027. ONSSA is urging families and those responsible for facilities caring for infants to carefully check lot numbers before use and to avoid any batches listed in the official alert tables.
The Angers public prosecutor’s office in France confirmed on Friday that cereulide had been detected in infant formula consumed by a baby who died at the end of December.
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