Yesterday, Monday 15 January, the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had obtained the ban from entrepreneurial activity for the owners of the ‘Glg’ laboratory who had prepared the vegan tiramisu that caused it the death of Anna Bellisario last February 5th. The note from prosecutor Marcello Viola provides further details on the matter, in particular on the presence of substances that should not have been present in the dessert intended for those following a vegan diet.
Mascarpone was an ingredient in tiramisu
According to what the Milan Prosecutor reports, the mascarpone inside the tiramisu which caused the death of Anna Bellisario it was a real ingredient. And there were not just a few traces present, due to contamination, as had initially been supposed. The offending laboratory had in fact claimed that, by making both normal and vegan tiramisu, they could mistakenly fake traces of milk even in the dessert intended for those who do not eat animal derivatives.
“The quantity of casein found in the product in question indicates that mascarpone was present in the preparation as an ingredient and not as a simple contaminant”, explains the Prosecutor’s Office in the note. Precisely because the dose was so massive, the dessert was “fatal for the victim”, who was strongly allergic to milk. The investigation therefore “made it possible to identify the cause of the incident in the tiramisu partially ingested by the victim, due to the presence of beta-lactoglobulins despite the product being sold as vegan”.
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“When you produce you don’t think about allergies”
Now the ban for Giovanna Anoia and her son Giuseppe Loiero, owners of the pastry shop, has also come because the investigators have found many critical issues in their sweet production and above all an underestimation of the problem, even after the girl’s death. “When you produce a product like this you don’t think about allergy sufferers, you are making it for vegans…” says the woman in a telephone interview immediately after the tragedy.
On the contrary, the positions of the manager of the Flower Burger restaurant and the representatives of the company that supplied the restaurant with vegan mayonnaise and mustard were removed, because – despite having found some irregularities also in those products – “having excluded the causal efficiency of their conduct in determining the fatal event”.