Leclerc Recalls Moroccan Melons Over Pesticide Contamination in Multiple French Regions

The French retailer has recalled these Charentais melons imported from Morocco after the discovery of high pesticide levels. RappelConso, the French government platform, asks consumers to avoid consuming this fruit and to destroy it, or return it for a refund before June 12 at the latest.

Consumers "in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardèche, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Corse-du-Sud, Haute-Corse, Gard, Var and Vaucluse" departments, where this Moroccan product was marketed between May 14 and 28, are concerned by this call.

Melons are not the first Moroccan fruit to be the subject of an alert in France. Last March, the RASFF, the rapid alert system for food and feed control in the European Union, had issued an alert concerning the presence of hepatitis A in batches of Moroccan strawberries imported into Spain.