New Year's Eve is a rare opportunity for many French people to taste oysters. However, fans will have to be extra vigilant because certain lots sold in several departments are the subject of a major recall. Who is affected?
Every year at the same time, health authorities demonstrate increased vigilance while the French generally consume more and more refined products such as smoked salmon, foie gras and oystersrelatively expensive. The government is therefore very attentive to the slightest anomalies identified and/or declared by brands or major retailers regarding all these products, and others, whether they are motor vehicles, clothing, household products or hygiene, or even children's toys like the one that was recently the subject of an alert due to the probable risk of suffocation that it could cause.
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But indisputably, it is in the food departments that the recalls are the most numerous at the moment, and recently consumers have been warned against batches of seafood put on sale in U stores and at LIDL in throughout France, shortly before the festivities associated with the New Year. Now oysters are in turn recalled, as stipulated on the site Consumption reminder specifying that it is CULTIMER FRANCE PRODUCTEURS ASSOCIES which echoes it, voluntarily, and that this procedure is therefore not the subject of a prefectural decree.
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Normandy oysters sold in the East and the North
In detail, it is aboutfine oysters produced in the Normandy region, N°4and prepared in 1.5kg hamperseither 24 pieces. These products had been put on shelves in several stores of the brand LIDLagain, dated December 26. There expiry date is fixed to the January 3 of the year 2025, when in reality it should be earlier. The government site indicates that the origin of the recall is indeed a error on the DLC. We are talking more precisely about a “labeling anomaly” which must convince you to destroy the product or return it as soon as possible to the point of sale. And this before January 29, 2025 ! A telephone number is made available to consumers for any questions relating to this procedure: the 02.99.80.60.95.
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However, here you have all the information necessary to identify these oyster baskets sold in only a few departments in Eastern France. Are concerned the MarneTHE Ardennesthe Meurthe-et-Mosellethe Meuse and the Moselle. The GTIN (barcode) present on the label is the number 3700096607462. All the cards are in your hands!
Recognizing an inedible oyster
Oysters are the cause of many domestic accidents during the end-of-year celebrations, just like champagne bottle corks. “As tasty as they are difficult to open, oysters are often the cause of serious hand accidents. Each year in France, there are around 2,000 incidents directly linked to the opening of oysters. Among them, around 20% of injuries require surgery“underlines the group of private hospitals in France ELSAN. This is why it is essential to take the time to follow tutorials to learn how to open oysters with a suitable knife, before diving headlong into this very delicate undertaking.
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Just as it is important to know how to recognize an inedible oysterknowing that they must be alive when ingested raw. In addition to the bad smell, an anomaly can be detected by poking it “at the level of his coat”, “that is to say the black outline, or pour lemon juice and see if the oyster shrinks” or not, “in which case she is alive”. “On the other hand, if the oyster shrinks significantly, this means that it is dehydrated”reminds us The Parisian.
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