15 tons of poor-quality olives seized

The Guardia Civil has seized 15 tons of olives in poor condition that were in an illegal sales point in the Cáceres town of Salvatierra de Santiago.

This action is part of the control exercised by the Guardia Civil within the olive collection campaign and was carried out in collaboration with personnel from the Extremadura Health Service, who determined that the olives were not suitable for human consumption.

Agents from the Roca Team of the Guardia Civil in Cáceres carried out an inspection on a 500 square metre plot, without a roof, inside which they found a large number of olives piled up on the ground.

In total they found 15,000 kilograms in an apparently poor state of conservation and among the defecations of a dog loose in the premises. During the control, the agents observed a liquid spill that could also pose a risk to the environment and public health.

The person in charge of the point could not prove that he was registered to carry out the activity of buying and selling the olives and could not present any document that guaranteed their traceability and origin. He also did not have the entry and exit registration reports, nor the accompanying documents of the people who had delivered or sold the deposited olives.

The 15 tons of olives were immediately seized, which were sealed for subsequent destruction as they did not meet the hygienic-sanitary conditions required for their marketing and consumption. The procedures for the imposition of the corresponding administrative sanctions on the person responsible for the illegal sales point were also initiated.

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