The prefectures of Calvados and Manche have temporarily banned the consumption and marketing of oysters produced in certain coastal sectors of these two departments, due to health problems (AFP/Archives/Christophe ARCHAMBAULT)
The prefectures of Calvados and Manche “temporarily” banned on Friday, due to health problems, the consumption and marketing of oysters produced in certain coastal sectors of these two departments.
In Calvados, the production concerned is that coming from the sectors of Grandcamp-Maisy Est and Géfosse-Fontenay, in the district of Bayeux. In the Manche region, the sector concerned is that of Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, in the north-east of Cotentin.
These bans are motivated by the same reasons which led the Gironde prefecture to take similar measures this week for oysters produced in the Arcachon basin, namely “cases of collective food poisoning”, explained the prefectures. Calvados and Manche in two separate press releases.
“The symptoms are those of acute gastroenteritis,” they clarified.
The “traceability surveys and analyzes carried out on farmed oysters indicate that contamination of oysters from” the targeted sectors in Calvados “is involved”, according to the prefecture of this department.
The prefect of Calvados also “temporarily prohibits fishing, harvesting and marketing activities intended for human consumption of shellfish from the aforementioned areas”. “The batches of shellfish harvested in these areas must be withdrawn from sale,” added this prefecture.
In its press release, it also asks “people who have shellfish from these areas not to consume them and to return them to the points of sale” and also emphasizes that “recreational fishing for shellfish is also prohibited”.
These ban measures “only concern the two sectors of Grandcamp-Maisy and Géfosse-Fontenay: no other production area in Calvados is concerned” and “these measures will be lifted as soon as the health quality of the shellfish has returned to full health. satisfactory”, adds the prefecture.
These temporary bans are a hard blow for oyster farmers, because the end-of-year holidays are one of the main periods for oyster consumption.
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