Overview
- Guardia Civil and the Balearic health ministry confiscated the stock in Palma from a distributor serving local restaurants and hotels.
- Inspectors found packages with production dates from 2018 and best-before dates that had lapsed by late 2019.
- Evidence showed the cold chain had been broken, with fish and seafood thawed and refrozen, including already cooked items with higher bacterial risk.
- The regional government levied a €90,000 fine for health-regulation breaches following the seizure.
- Authorities state none of the contaminated goods entered the market, and media note the reason for revealing the case months after April remains unclear.