- Anna Bellisario and boyfriend were dining at a restaurant in January last year
A manslaughter investigation has been launched after a 20-year-old with a dairy allergy died after being served a tiramisu dessert made with milk.
Anna Bellisario and her boyfriend were dining at a fast food restaurant in Milan on January 26 last year, Italian media report.
She suffered anaphylactic shock and died on February 5 at San Raffaele Hospital.
The two women who ran the pastry shop that supplied the restaurant are under investigation for manslaughter, Italian daily reports Corriere della Sera reports.
The pair had switched the bill for vegan sweets with desserts containing milk, the first part of the investigation suggested, the newspaper reported.
Anna Bellisario and her boyfriend were dining at a fast food restaurant in Milan on January 26 last year, Italian media report. She suffered anaphylactic shock and died on February 5 at San Raffaele Hospital
The two women had switched the bill for vegan sweets with desserts containing milk, the first part of the investigation suggested, a report said (Stock Image)
It is alleged that the company did not prevent the mixing of the two production lines in the laboratory pastry shop, which at the time supplied the vegan Tiramisu product to 63 Italian restaurants.
In a reconstruction by prosecutors Tiziana Siciliano and Luca Gaglio on Monday, the investigating judge Fiammetta Modica, based on information partly based on telephone taps that “paint a worrying picture of unscrupulousness”, ordered the banning of the laboratory’s owners, a mother and daughter. , the newspaper reports.
It was suggested that if the separation between ingredients and environments had been respected and staff had received appropriate training, rather than just a four-hour course, there would have been no mixing of casein with products of plant origin in the kitchen. confectioner’s laboratory, which led to the fatal outcome for the girl.
When she ordered the tiramisu, Bellisario checked the label, but also asked for more information due to her very strong allergy, and after reassurance, she started eating it, according to the report.
By the second spoonful she felt nauseous and ran to the bathroom to try to throw up.
When she ordered the tiramisu, Anna Bellisario checked the label but also asked for more information because of her very strong allergy, a report shows. She had started eating after being reassured, but after the second spoonful she felt nauseous and ran to the bathroom to try to throw up, the report said.
She took the asthma medication and cortisone she always had with her, but lost consciousness shortly afterwards and later died in hospital.
Anna, who studied fashion design, regularly went to the restaurant. Since birth she had suffered from a strong milk allergy.
Traces of milk protein were also found in other tiramisu glasses of the same brand.
In addition, traces of egg were found in the mayonnaise of the supposedly vegan sandwich that Anna had as a main course in the restaurant.
The product, Tiramisun Mascherma, was withdrawn from the market on February 6 by the Ministry of Health because it may contain milk proteins that were not declared on the label.