The makers of a killer 'vegan' tiramisu that allegedlytriggered a deadly allergic reaction in a 20-year-old woman are set to go on trial for manslaughter in Italy.

Anna Bellisario was allergic to dairy products and died after eating four spoonful's of the creamy dessert, which contained traces of mascarpone cheese.

Now Milan's Deputy Prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano and Prosecutor Luca Gaglio have demanded the indictment of the bosses of GLG SRL, the family firm that produced the dessert.

Local media said that Giuseppe Loiero and his mother Giovanna Anoia will face trial after prosecutors discovered damning communications between the two.

They are accused of complicity in manslaughter,and on January 15 the investigating judge issued a ban on them from business activity for one year.

One admitted that they had not considered allergy sufferers when creating vegan recipes.

Bellisario and her boyfriend had been dining at a fast food restaurant in Milan on January 26 last year.

When she ordered the tiramisu, Bellisario reportedly checked the label, but also asked for further information due to her very strong allergy.

She had then started to eat after being given reassurance, it was reported.

On the second spoonful, she felt sick and ran to the bathroom to try to vomit.

She took the asthma medication and the cortisone that she always carried, but shortly afterwards she lost consciousness and later died in hospital.

She passed away at San Raffaele hospital on February 5 aftersuffering a massive anaphylactic shock just minutes after eating the deadly dessert.

After her death, Italy's Health Ministry withdrew several products marketed as vegan, and pulled a number of goods that had a 'suspected presence of allergens not declared on the label'.

Many of them had reportedly been produced by the GLG company.

In other tiramisu packaging from the same brand, traces of milk protein were also identified.

On top of that, traces of egg were found in the mayonnaise of the supposedly vegan sandwich that Bellisario had as her main dish in the restaurant.

Investigators claim that the dessert contained a high quantity of milk proteins due to the incorrect use of mascarpone in the production of cream intended for the tiramisu.

Prosecutors also said that the mascarpone was not a contamination in the desert but was in fact being used as an active ingredient.

Police unearthed 'critical issues' with food safety and production procedures, according to local media.

It was suggested that if the separation of the ingredients and environments had been respected, and the staff had been given the correct training instead of just a four-hour course there would have been no mixing of casein with products of vegetable origin in the pastry laboratory, which led to the fatal outcome for the girl.

Prosecutors will say that vegan and no vegan foods were stored and prepared side by side with a high chance of cross-contamination.

And some staff, according to local media, had no idea what 'vegan' meant.

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