They urge the consumption of Spanish almonds instead of American ones

The Spanish Association of Organic and Conventional Almond Producers, with headquarters in the Cuenca municipality of Minglanilla, has urged consumers to buy almonds of Spanish origin, given “the repeated problems of toxicity of American almonds imported by our country and by Europe". From this Association they point out that "the almond of Spanish origin is of low production and barely treated with phytosanitary products, compared to an American almond of very high production with very high water consumption and treated with chemicals that are prohibited in Spain." In this sense, they refer to a new alert issued this week by the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed of the European Union (Rasff), which warns of the presence of aflatoxins (a type of toxins present in various nuts). In this case, health authorities have detected it in some almonds from the United States. Rasff details that the alert was detected in a border control carried out on July 1, retaining the shipment of ...