Spain: Third health alert on products of Moroccan origin

Published 2024년 3월 19일

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The European Union's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (Rasff) has issued three health alerts in less than a month for products from Morocco, including two for Hepatitis A in strawberries and one for a banned pesticide in peppers. These contaminated products have been distributed across various EU countries. Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Carmen Crespo, is calling for equal treatment of horticultural products from within the EU and abroad, as Spanish producers face stricter controls compared to countries like Morocco, Turkey, Egypt, or Israel.
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The facts are proving the farmers who have been protesting throughout Spain (and part of Europe) in recent months right. In less than a month, three health alerts have been decreed for products from Morocco, one of the most important reasons for the latest tractors. The European Union's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (Rasff) issued two alerts in just ten days warning of the "presence of Hepatitis A in Moroccan strawberries." The notification mentioned a “potentially serious” risk and recalled that the contaminated strawberries would have been distributed in different countries of the European Union. This past Monday, Coag Almería denounced the third health alert in just twelve days, in this case in Moroccan peppers. A French company warned of the presence of Imidacloprid, a product banned by some supermarket chains for crops from Almería agriculture. The levels of pesticide found in the food that were about to enter the French distribution channel ...

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