Mussels containing paralyzing toxins and marketed at Intermarché and Carrefour are the subject of a product recall.
Mussels marketed at Intermarché and Carrefour are the subject of a recall, alert this Tuesday 60 million consumers.
These crustaceans contain paralyzing toxins PSP (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) which cause “headaches, nausea and dizziness, disturbance of motor skills and incoherence of speech with the risk of death from paralysis of the respiratory muscles. The first symptoms appear within 5 to 30 minutes after consumption of the contaminated shellfish”. They usually start with a sudden paresthesia (tingling, tingling, numbness, etc.) lips, face, arms and then legs.
Insofar as these substances are not destroyed during cooking, it is recommended not to consume them, but to destroy or return them to the point of sale for reimbursement.
The batches concerned
The first recall concerns Mussels from Italy marketed in 10 kg bags at Intermarché between May 28 and June 2 (batch number “107292” and health stamp “FR 34.108.530 CE”).
The other alert concerns the 1.4 kg punnets of Carrefour quality brand rope mussels (barcode 3 276 559 382 196 and batch number “10732947”) whose packaging date is May 31, 2019) .
People who have consumed these mussels and present one or more of the symptoms described, are invited to consult their doctor, notifying him of this consumption.
Several cases of poisoning from 1793
Paralytic PSP toxins are produced by algae. According to a report of ANSES, “si the Vancouver account described with precision, as early as 1793, several cases of poisoning of navigators by contaminated shells, marine phycotoxins were only known for about thirty years and have since been a subject of significant interest. for public health”. In particular because of “the extension of the coastal areas affected to the whole of the globe and the increase in the number of blooms of toxic micro-algae, leading to the identification of an increasing number of families of phycotoxins”.
In 2003, in metropolitan France, two areas were temporarily closed due to the presence paralyzing shellfish toxins. However, specifies ANSES, “iCases of death have been identified in different regions of the globe, but never in France”.
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