Bacteria or presence of foreign bodies … How does a product recall take place?

In Saône-et-Loire, a director must peel a list daily … which continues to increase. These are products unfit for consumption. “We have as much fresh products, as olive oil, as infusions”he said. New example this Monday, June 23 with celery. It contains metallic and plastic bodies. A risk of suffocation exists, it must then immediately be removed from the rays. Julien Marolleau, manager of a City crossroads in Mâcon, details the procedure: “First, I look at if the product is present, then I stick a poster to warn, but also so that customers who bought the product this morning or yesterday know that it must be brought back and so that they can be reimbursed”.

Whether they are contaminated by bacteria or that they contain foreign bodies, 2,091 references were recalled in France last year. Each product brought back is of course destroyed. But among the most concerned are meat, seafood, but also dairy products.

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