Parents urged to keep Kinder eggs from their kids on Easter Sunday

Parents urged to keep Kinder eggs from their kids on Easter Sunday

So far in Ireland, there have been 15 confirmed cases of Salmonella from Kinder eggs and most of them involved young children. File photo

Parents are being urgently reminded not to let their children eat any Kinder eggs that they may receive tomorrow due to the significant risk of Salmonella infection.

With less than 24 hours to go until hundreds of thousands of children are cracking into their Easter egg haul, Dr Paul McKeown, a consultant in public medicine with the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, said the “timing is terrible” for such products to face a recall.

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