[HIGHLIGHTS] The alert for Moroccan strawberries with hepatitis that were not consumed was magnified by the protests in the countryside

The EU Rapid Food Alert System (RASFF) launched an alert this Monday for a batch of strawberries with hepatitis A from Morocco that had arrived in Spain. These types of procedures occur dozens of times every day in the EU—84 have been issued since March 1.

In the case of strawberries, they have not reached consumers, so no one is affected. Despite this, the right has taken advantage of the situation to magnify the alert in the midst of rural protests. The problem has been magnified because we have a conflict with the Spanish countryside over the import of products from Morocco.