After the scandal of the ban on the sale of oysters just before the end-of-year holidays in the Arcachon basin, another region was affected by a ban on the sale of shellfish on New Year’s Eve. Year, the Normandy department of Calvados.
While on December 27, the Giron prefecture announced a temporary ban on the sale of oysters from the Arcachon basin, it is the turn of shellfish to also be affected by a temporary sales ban. A big blow for all the operators in the region, while the end-of-year holidays are renowned for being a period of very high consumption, a large part of the oyster farmers in the Arcachon basin had to sit on a large portion of their turnover for the year. A significant shortfall in earnings, as Maïron Martin, an oyster farmer in Arès, near “20 to 30% of turnover“.
Banned from sale until further notice due to food poisoning, Calvados shellfish also appear contaminated. Indeed, Friday December 29, just two days before the New Year, the prefecture of the Calvados department announced through a press release that all the shellfish coming from the Grandcamps Maisy and Géfosse Fontenay sectors are “prohibited from marketing and consumption” until further notice.
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Cases of “food poisoning” reported
A decision which was taken by the prefect of Calvados in the context of the appearance of several cases of “collective food poisoning» whose symptoms are strongly similar to those of acute gastroenteritis after consuming oysters from zone 14-160 of Grandcamp-Maisy Est as well as zone 14-161 Grandcamp-Maisy Ouest and Géfosse Fontenay. In order not to take any risks during this period of high consumption, the local authorities therefore preferred to ban “provisionally fishing, harvesting and marketing activities intended for human consumption of shellfish from the aforementioned areas.»
It is also indicated in the press release that all batches of shellfish from these areas must be removed from the shelves and those who ordered them before the ban not to consume them. Measures also taken at the level of recreational fishing since this has also been banned in the region. A departmental commission was also created with the aim of assessing the deterioration of the region’s water during January and thus proposing means to improve its quality.
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