Essaouira: Ban on the harvest and marketing of shellfish products from the Oum Toyour-Chouika zone
Rabat – The Department of Maritime Fisheries announced, Friday, the ban on the harvesting and marketing of shellfish products from the classified shellfish growing zone Oum Toyour-Chouika in the Essaouira region, until total purification from the middle.
The results of analyzes carried out by the National Institute of Fisheries Research (INRH) in the classified shellfish growing zone Oum Toyour-Chouika in the Essaouira region, indicate the presence of marine toxins in mussels at levels exceeding the accepted standards, explains the Department of Maritime Fisheries in a press release.
Consequently, the department recommends that consumers only purchase packaged products, bearing identification health labels and sold in authorized points of sale (official markets).
Shellfish hawked or sold in bulk offer no guarantee of safety and constitute a danger to public health, warns the same source.