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Julien, a landscaper from Toulouse, had an unpleasant surprise when he opened a can bought a few minutes earlier at the Aldi in Labarthe-sur-Lèze. He found live maggots in the middle of his tuna salad.
“I felt disgust, then the fear of being sick,” confides Julien. This landscaper is in shock after discovering live maggots in a dish bought at Aldi, near Toulouse. “I hope that children and vulnerable people did not ingest the same meal.”
His story begins on Tuesday October 15. That day, this man and one of his colleagues took a lunch break. Due to lack of time, they decide to go get food at the Aldi store in Labarthe-sur-Lèze, south of Toulouse.
A product from the Les Doris brand
The duo is convinced by an “American tuna salad”. A product from the Les Doris brand, canned and sold for less than €2″. We then left for a warm lunch, without suspecting what we were going to discover.” After eating a bite or two of salad, Julien smelled a taste of fermentation. “My eye was then caught by a suspicious movement at the bottom of the can,” he recalls, still disgusted.
Before his eyes, two little white maggots wander between the corn kernels, the tuna and the tomato. “I must have swallowed some,” imagines this Toulouse resident. Very quickly, the landscaper and his colleague stop their meal and return to Aldi. “They wanted to reimburse me, but that’s not the problem. A priori, no one knows if it was just in my company or in others. It’s worrying,” he judges.
When leaving Aldi, Julien immediately dials the emergency number. “I was afraid of being sick, I needed explanations on the procedure to follow. I remembered recent cases of botulism, it made you panic,” he testifies.
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These boxes are still on sale at Aldi
The Samu doctors advised him to monitor the appearance of any worrying symptoms before going to the emergency room. But, luckily, this man was not ill. “I wonder how these maggots were able to survive in a sealed can. Perhaps there was an air leak at some point,” imagines Julien.
Three days after the events, this Friday, La Dépêche du Midi visited this business. And the product is still on sale on the shelves.
When requested, management ensures that it has passed the information on to its teams dedicated to quality controls. “Checks have been underway since Tuesday to find out if this is an isolated act or if it affects more cans. This brand of tuna is that of the Aldi brand, the checks will be very rapid,” promises a door -speech of German stores. At this point, they actually haven’t removed the product. “As long as we do not have certainty that this contamination is widespread, removing the merchandise from our 1,300 stores would be premature,” explains the supermarket’s communication.
