Italian prosecutors have filed manslaughter charges against the maker of a supposedly “vegan” tiramisu who allegedly killed a 20-year-old woman with a milk allergy at a Milan restaurant last year.
“The amount of milk proteins found in the product in question indicates that mascarpone was included… despite the fact that the product was sold as vegan,” prosecutor Marcello Viola said in a statement on Wednesday, according to The Telegraph .
Because despite her caution and her clear steps to communicate her dietary restrictions to the restaurant where she had dinner with her boyfriend, Anna Bellisario suffered after eating tiramisu from the Italian company Glg. a fatal anaphylactic shock.
The young woman, who suffered from severe allergy to dairy and eggs, was said to have been in a coma for ten days before succumbing.
After an investigation, prosecutors accused the dessert maker of “underestimating the different types of consumers for whom the product was designed” after hearing one of the owners, Giovanna Anoia, mention the presence of Ingredients minimized.
“When you make a product like this, you don't think about allergy sufferers, you make it for vegans,” she said in particular, prosecutors noted.
In addition, the vegan products were prepared in the same room and at the same time as the non-vegan products, which led to the “ingredients of plant origin” being mixed with other products such as mascarpone, it said. reportedly according to The Telegraph.
The owner and her son Giuseppe Loiero, also a co-owner, have not commented on the investigation, according to the British tabloid.