1,600 kilos of Japanese clam confiscated without food safety guarantee in Huelva

The Junta de Andalucía, through officers of the Fisheries Inspection of the Andalusian Agency for Agrarian and Fisheries Management (Agapa), has seized 1,600 kilograms of Japanese clam (Ruditapes philippinarum) in the town of Isla Cristina, Huelva. This seizure took place during a joint operation with officers from the National Police Unit assigned to Andalusia in Huelva. In the operation, which took place at the beginning of October, Fisheries Inspection personnel on duty for monitoring and controlling transport activities and agents from the National Police Unit assigned to Andalusia in Huelva detected in the vicinity of Isla Cristina a vehicle with a Portuguese license plate, driven by a Portuguese citizen, transporting 1,600 kilograms of Japanese clam. The products lacked documentation proving their origin and identification, thus failing to comply with current regulations for their commercialization. Given the seriousness of the facts, the officers immobilized the vehicle at ...