Temporary goodbye to oysters in France, at least to safeguard New Year’s Eve. A few days before the end of 2023 and the celebrations of 2024, French authorities decided to temporarily block the sale of the precious and expensive molluscs. Specifically, oyster producers in the Arcachon Basin, in the southeast of the country, were affected after “several cases of collective food poisoning”. Gironde city hall found cases with “typical symptoms of acute gastroenteritis”, although, to date, “no serious situation has been reported”.
Experts decided to launch a series of investigations into traceability, but several reports indicated that oysters from Arcachon Bay “could pose a risk” and some analyzes carried out on the products in question confirmed the presence of the “norovirus” responsible for gastroenteritis in all of this In fact, health authorities also recorded an increase in visits to hospitals, precisely due to gastrointestinal symptoms linked to the same food source during the Christmas period, something that some local media reported.
Source: IL Tempo
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