Orders to export contaminated oil to Spain

He European Union Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (Rasff) issued a warning about the import of contaminated oil into Spain and other parts of Europe. Made in Vietnam.

This is basil oil, which, according to the manufacturing company itself, was contaminated at some point during production diethyl phthalate. It is a chemical compound that is used to make plastic flexible. Is very toxicconsequently, the incident was classified as serious by Ruff.

On the positive side, this is another example of incident detection systems working correctly. The manufacturing company itself, whose details are not disclosed, warned European Union authorities. Thanks to this, contaminated oil was removed even before it reached distribution chain.

Don’t worry about contaminated oil

This contaminated specimen may have been sold in Spain. In fact, this is how it should have been. Fortunately, because it was withdrawn before it entered the distribution network, it did not end up on store shelves. no establishment.

Unlike what happens with other health alerts of this type, we don’t have to test the foods we have in our home. This should make us feel protected. However, such incidents also raise a lot of doubts, especially due to the fact that Information about the manufacturing company is usually not given.

What is known is that the contaminated oil was produced in Vietnam. There is no information about the company, so consumer organization FACUA indicated that many people restrained before any product coming from outside.

Would it be useful to know?

Perhaps, knowing which company made a mistake, we will veto it. The same thing happens when the media tends to report only on incidents that occurred in countries such as Morocco. We tend to think that everything that comes from there can be dangerous. But this is not true.

Such incidents are often identified in food industry. In all countries. Luckily, in most cases, we won’t even know because the problem is resolved before the food reaches our pantries. This contaminated oil is a good example of this. We shouldn’t be afraid of Vietnamese food, other than worrying about the carbon footprint of importing it. And we shouldn’t have boycotted the company if we knew about it. After all, they acted correctly by detecting the error in time and reporting it.