Sesame seeds.
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For several weeks, many products containing sesame seeds from India have been recalled.
They present in fact ethylene oxide, classified as a "carcinogenic agent", at a "content higher than the maximum regulatory limit", indicated, in November, the General Directorate of Competition, Consumption and Repression. fraud (DGCCRF).
According to UFC-Que Choisir, relayed by Capital, Indian producers have voluntarily used this contamination product: “Europe has put a lot of pressure on India to avoid contamination of sesame by salmonella, with a sample on five who are checked on this criterion on arrival on the continent.
This probably resulted in the increased use of decontamination products such as ethylene oxide.
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Consult the regularly updated list of products containing sesame affected by the recall.
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"Our analytical capacities are not infinite"
Everything except an "isolated accident", assured the European Commission.
In total, 3,000 tonnes of sesame seeds sent from India would be affected.
The first contaminated products were identified in February but official recalls began in September.
The effectiveness of controls is therefore called into question.
"We can always consider that the mesh could be finer, but our analytical capacities are not infinite", we explain to the European Commission, which recalls that "it is in total 60,000 tonnes of sesame seeds which are imported from India every year ”.
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