Spain notifies a weekly food alert at the borders: strawberries with hepatitis have been the last

Spain notifies, on average, one serious alert per week as a result of the border controls to which it subjects food imported from third countries; the last one, this Monday, for strawberries with hepatitis A from Morocco. In the last 12 months, Spain notified the European Union Food Alert Network (Rasff) of 58 alerts, mainly from Morocco (13), Ecuador (11) and Australia (8) but there are also countries such as China, Peru , Pakistan, Egypt, Brazil, United Kingdom, Senegal, Chile, USA, Colombia or Tunisia, among others. In this same month, on March 1, Spain warned when a consignment was detected at the border due to the presence of aflatoxins above the maximum limit allowed in rice from Pakistan, according to the information consulted by Efeagro. Furthermore, in the last 12 months, alerts have been activated at border posts due to breaks in the food cold chain; bacterial presence (salmonella, vibrio cholerae or E.coli); detection of parasites such as anisakis in fish; levels of ...