The Board intervenes “large quantities” from companies without sanitary registration and out of control and asks the population “not to consume them”
Fraud in the distribution of oil brands in Extremadura from the producer market of this product in Andalusia. The alert has been made public this Thursday by the regional administration of this autonomous community and the allegedly fraudulent marksand that would have been sold throughout Extremadura, are Acebuche, Virgen del Guadiana, Cortijo del Oro, La Campia de Andaluca, Galiaceite 2022, La Abada, Villa de Jerez, Don Jan Aceite 2019 and Imperio Andaluz, without ruling out for the moment that there were a greater number involved.
Specific, The General Directorate of Public Health of the Extreme Health Service (SES) has announced that it has been forced to intervene after the complaint of two consumers who acquired the virgin olive oil in different locations in the province of Badajoz “with altered organoleptic characteristics of taste, smell, color and consistency”.
As a result, the SES veterinarians and pharmacists appeared “immediately” in small shops where they were purchased., “verifying important deficiencies in the labeling and traceability of the product,” according to the Board. The Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) received a food alert at the request of the Andalusian health authorities, specifying that “companies without a health registration number and, therefore, out of official control” were bottling olive oil. and distributing it in Extremadura.
After verifying the facts, the General Directorate of Public Health proceeded to immediately inform all the Health areas of Extremadura about this food alert, “making it extensible to any mislabeled oil from Andalusian companies, so that precautionary immobilization can be carried out.” “.
The Junta de Extremadura has not specified the amount mobilized in the eight Health areas intervened, but specified that “there are large quantities of oil immobilized”, from different establishments, distributor warehouses, markets, gas stations, etc., pending analytical results.
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