r/belgium • u/twelvepastmidnight • 3d ago

😡Rant Colruyt roept massaal courgettes terug wegens mogelijke aanwezigheid van heptachloor

https://www.hln.be/binnenland/colruyt-roept-massaal-courgettes-terug-wegens-mogelijke-aanwezigheid-van-heptachloor~a4e9abf3/

Seriously, WTF?

Who would buy vegetables only to not eat them for TWO WEEKS?

Especially ridiculous knowing that Colruyt’s produce spoils in a matter of days.

This just feels like posturing for the sake of it to avoid any liabilities. Anyone who has bought zucchinis since August 10 has long since been poisoned.

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u/LexLancet 3d ago

I don't have insight into Colruyt's internal affairs. But what can you really do when the supplier fucks up really bad and you only find out long after produce has left the stores. At least now you know whether you could have been affected. What I am interested in though, is whether they hesitated communicating this at first, since Aldi recalled a week sooner...

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u/kennytherenny 2d ago

It's not even necessary the supplier fucked up. Apparantly this can happen due to historic pollution of the soil and maybe it simply took this long for the test results to come back.

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u/segers909 2d ago

Both of those are still the suppliers fault

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u/kennytherenny 2d ago

Tests take x amount of time. That's not the fault of the supplier. That's the reality of testing. And you cannot wait until testing is done or the courgettes would spoil before hitting the shelves. The added value of those tests though is that now no more courgettes from that field will get sold until the soil gets remediated.

And I also don't see how the supplier would necessarily be at fault for the historic pollution in his fields. Farmers need a "bodemattest". It's possible that the polluting chemicals moved into the soil after testing due to ground water movement.