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French Senate Inquiry Says State Covered Up Nestlé's Mineral Water Fraud
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE1.3 years agoAP, datelined Paris 19 May 2025: 'a Senate inquiry commission said Monday'; Public Sénat: the senators 'ont rendu leurs conclusions ce lundi 19 mai'. The Senate's notice gives the filing: 'Rapport n° 628 (2024-2025), tome I, déposé le 14 mai 2025'.[1]After six months and 73 hearings, a Senate commission said the French state hid Nestlé Waters' use of banned treatments on Perrier, Vittel, Contrex and Hépar, a fraud France's fraud-control agency puts at over 3 billion euros.0.69Nestlé Recalls 25 Infant Formula Batches in 16 European Countries
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE288 days agoNestlé's own sequence of events: 'On 10 December 2025, we informed the Dutch authorities ... the same day, we initiated a voluntary and precautionary public recall of all batches produced (25 in total) in 16 countries in Europe'; Nestlé Sweden's release is stamped '10 December 2025 11:16'.[1]Routine checks after new equipment went into a line at Nestlé's Dutch infant-formula plant found traces of the toxin cereulide, so Nestlé recalled every batch made since - 25 batches, including NAN formula, in 16 European countries.0.68French MPs' Report Faults Nestlé's Slow Infant Formula Recalls
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE128 days agofranceinfo[1][3]: 'Un rapport parlementaire de l'Assemblée nationale, publié mardi 19 mai'.An Assemblée nationale fact-finding mission found contaminated formula stayed on sale for weeks after the alert and that five weeks passed between Nestlé's first recall and France's health crisis centre hearing of it, and made 12 recommendations.0.68Nestlé Extends Its Infant Formula Recall Worldwide Over Tainted ARA Oil
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE262 days agoNestlé's sequence of events: 'As of 2 January 2026, we began notifying the authorities progressively in the affected countries and, as a precaution, initiated the voluntary public recall as from 5 January 2026'; Ireland's FSAI[6] notice is dated Monday 05 January 2026.After tracing the toxin cereulide to arachidonic acid (ARA) oil from a global supplier, Nestlé began recalling SMA, BEBA, NAN, Alfamino and Guigoz batches country by country from 5 January 2026, in more than 60 countries.0.65Nancy Appeals Court Orders Nestlé Waters Retried Over Vosges Plastic Dumps
Cour d'Appel, Place Nelson Mandela, Léopold, Ville Vieille, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Grand Est, Metropolitan France, 54100, FranceNestlé
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE7 days agoICI[1] (France Bleu): 'La cour d'appel de Nancy a infirmé cette décision, jeudi 17 septembre. L'affaire est donc intégralement renvoyée devant le tribunal correctionnel.'The court reinstated the prosecution's microplastics analyses that Nancy's criminal court had thrown out in March, sending the case over 473,000 m³ of waste dumped near Vittel and Contrexéville back for a full new trial.0.59Abbott Settles DOJ Infant Formula Claims for $385 Million
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE10 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Sept. 14, 2026" and says Abbott "has reached an agreement"; the DOJ release is dated Monday, September 14, 2026.[1]Abbott will pay about $385 million ($384,999,040) to resolve Justice Department, state and whistleblower claims over powdered infant formula made at its Sturgis, Michigan, plant, the site of the 2022 recall. Abbott admits no liability, and the government has closed its criminal investigation.$385M0.57Perrier's Two-Year Reinforced Health Checks at Vergèze End
Nestlé Waters Supply Sud Source Perrier, Vergèze, Nîmes, Gard, Occitania, Metropolitan France, 30310, France
ESTIMATED68% CONFIDENCEin 1.2 yearsThe prefect's decree of 18 December 2025 orders 'la poursuite d'un contrôle sanitaire renforcé sur une période de 24 mois sur les captages RVI et RVII' without saying when the period starts, so the end is estimated as 24 months after the decree.[1]The 24-month reinforced health monitoring the Gard prefect imposed on Perrier's Romaine VI and VII boreholes runs out, and Nestlé must then show the spring's original purity and stable mineral content to keep its natural mineral water status.0.56Nestlé Hands Its Diósgyőr Chocolate Factory to Vimpex
Negyedik utca, Vasgyári újtelep, Újdiósgyőr, Miskolc, Miskolci járás, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, North Hungary, Great Plain and North, 3533, Hungary
SCHEDULED79% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysGiven as scheduled: Nestlé Hungária's release of 11 September 2026 says "2027. január 1-jétől a Vimpex cégcsoport ... folytatja tovább az édességgyártást a diósgyőri üzemben" (from 1 January 2027 the Vimpex group continues confectionery production at the Diósgyőr plant), Nestlé having said it ends production there in December 2026.[1]Nestlé stops making hollow chocolate figures at its 220-worker Diósgyőr plant in Miskolc at the end of 2026, and Hungarian food wholesaler Vimpex takes the factory over from 1 January 2027, keeping at least a third of the staff.0.56Abbott Settles Gill Case and 2,000 NEC Formula Claims for $670M
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE35 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 20, 2026" and the 8-K says "On August 20, 2026 ... Abbott entered into agreements to resolve the Gill lawsuit".[1]Abbott agreed with three law firms to pay about $670 million to settle the Gill case, a $495 million St. Louis jury award, and NEC claims for about 2,000 other preterm infants fed its specialty formulas. About 1,700 lawsuits covering some 12,700 infants remain.$670M0.56Köhler and Milstein Publish the Hybridoma Method
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Francis Crick Avenue, Trumpington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, England, CB2 0QH, United KingdomMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE51.1 years agoNature's[1] own page for the article gives citation_online_date 1975/08/01 and shows "01 August 1975" as the publication date, with the paper received 14 May 1975 and accepted 26 June 1975; it is Nature volume 256, issue 5517, pages 495-497.Georges Köhler and César Milstein report in Nature that fusing an antibody-producing cell with a myeloma cell yields a line that secretes a single antibody indefinitely. Monoclonal antibodies become the basis of the modern biologics industry.0.56Nestlé Q1 2026 Sales: 3.5% Organic Growth Despite Infant Formula Recall
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE154 days agoStated as firm: the GlobeNewswire[1] copy of Nestlé's ad hoc announcement is stamped "April 23, 2026 01:00 ET" (07:00 CEST in Vevey, 05:00 UTC), with the call at "09:30 CEST".Nestlé grew 3.5% organically in the first quarter, led by coffee, even though its infant formula recall cut about 0.9 points off growth; reported sales fell 5.7% to CHF 21.3 billion on the strong franc. It kept its 2026 guidance.0.56MenQuadfi's Phase 3 Trial in Meningococcal Infection Reads Out
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 1.5 yearsClinicalTrials.gov[1] lists 2028-03-13 as the estimated primary completion date; a sponsor's estimate, and trials of this size routinely slip.Sanofi's phase 3 trial of MenQuadfi in meningococcal infection reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 4,568 participants. The purpose of this study is to describe the safety and immunogenicity of MenACYW conjugate vaccine compared with locally-licensed meningococcal vaccines in healthy infants and toddlers in China. Study details include: * Study duration (including 6-month safety follow-up after the last dose): * Cohort I (Groups 1 and 2): approximately 211 or 271 days (approximately 7 or 9 months) * Cohort II (Groups 3 and 4): up to 18 months * Cohort III (Groups 5 and 6): up to 21 months * Cohort III (Group 7): approximately 16 months * Vaccination Visits Period: * Cohort I (Groups 1 and 2): a 2-dose vaccination at V01 (D01) and V02 (D31) or V03 (D91). Two blood samples are collected pre-vaccination (D01) and 30 days post the 2nd dose of vaccination (D61 or D121). Telephone calls (TCs) are planned on the 4th, the 9th, and the 21st day after each vaccination, and 5 TCs (1 TC/month) are planned for the 5 m0.55
