three businesses closed, 400 dangerous products seized

Two days after a vast health control operation carried out on the Sarcelles market which led to the seizure of 45 bottles of Sniper, a dangerous insecticide and prohibited for sale, it is in Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise) that the agents of the Val-d'Oise Departmental Directorate for Population Protection (Ddpp 95), intervened, Thursday January 16, 2025.

Accompanied by national police officers, the inspectors invested the Joliot-Curie market to sift through the stalls. They thus noted several violations in terms of consumer protection.

65 kg of food products destroyed, bags of Green Leaf seized

While 65 kg of foodstuffs unfit for consumption were destroyed on site and 100 products were reported for counterfeiting, the State services carried out the seizure of 400 products various were seized “due to prohibited substances in their composition or lack of traceability”, specifies the Val-d’Oise prefecture.

Among the confiscated products, 65 sachets of Green Leafa dangerous and banned insecticide. This product allows fight against cockroaches was in fact the subject of a recall throughout France last year. Like the Sniper, used against bed bugsthe insecticide which contains fipronil, an active substance not authorized on the European market, is potentially fatal. In June 2024, 200 sachets were seized on the Sarcelles market.

These discoveries led to the taking of various administrative sanctions by the prefect of Val-d'Oise against offending traders at the Argenteuil market. Three closures were thus pronounced, the services of the prefecture having also drawn up four reports for deceptive business practices on the origin of food products and issued nine warnings for failure to display prices or lack of information.

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