A fish distributor in Mallorca serving the island’s eating places has been fined €90,000 for 2 very critical violations of public well being and shopper safety legal guidelines.
Twenty tonnes of fish and seafood unfit for human consumption have been seized following an inspection in April this yr by the Guardia Civil and authorities well being inspectors. In most instances, the merchandise have been past their use-by dates or had been thawed and refrozen, some with 2019 dates.
Labels confirmed dates comparable to batch manufacture in May 2018 and best-before dates, e.g. November 2019. Had these merchandise reached customers, they’d now have been six years old-fashioned. In sure cases, the meals had been frozen and thawed a number of instances. By breaking the chilly chain, it had grow to be a supply of micro organism that would have brought about meals poisoning.
In the case of frozen oily fish it is suggested to eat it after three months; white fish after six months, and shellfish a most of 1 yr after being frozen. This applies to uncooked meals, however cooked merchandise have been additionally discovered within the distributor’s warehouse; these pose a better threat because the consumption restrict is shorter.
The Guardia Civil have confirmed that not one of the packages containing meals unfit for consumption have been delivered.
